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From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Logwatch and TimeZone Errors
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:59:11
Message-Id: 200611021753.54229.robin.atwood@attglobal.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Logwatch and TimeZone Errors by Ow Mun Heng
1 On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:35, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
2 > Has anyone seen this problem? I've tried to rebuild perl and logwatch
3 > and timezone-data
4 >
5 > ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone.
6 > at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 3635
7 > Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called
8 > at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 676
9 > Date::Manip::Date_Init() called
10 > at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 799
11 > Date::Manip::ParseDateString('epoch 1162369100') called
12 > at /usr/share/logwatch/lib/Logwatch.pm line 508
13 > Logwatch::TimeBuild() called at /usr/sbin/logwatch.pl line 731
14
15 I have been through this, Perl doesn't understand Far Eastern time zones like
16 this:
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18 robin@opal ~ $ date
19 Thu Nov 2 17:52:10 ICT 2006
20
21 I resorted to hacking /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch and adding:
22
23 export TZ="+0700"
24
25 which fixes the problem. Adjust your offset accordingly... :)
26
27 HTH
28 -Robin.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Logwatch and TimeZone Errors Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>