[Freeipa-users] Time bug

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:16:36 +1300
Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Americans are funny ppl they put the date format as month then
> day.....the problem is in the real world, its day then month....
> 
> So I have registered 1 client and 2 ipa masters as of 4th march 2011
> NZST, but the IPA server's gui says I registered them a month in the
> future, ie 3rd April 2011  GMT+12 NZST....very neat...
> 
> ;]
> 
> So you need some sort of detection script/software to sort that I
> suspect.....or fix the display format in the gui...?
> 
> Possibly this might not be helping with my issues as all my machines
> think its NZST while the IPA master server's software might be
> thinking they are telling it April? hence security certificates etc
> go "boom"?

No, it is just a display issue in the UI, internally all software uses
unix timestamps and UTC.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York