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Localhost Runs UTC vs Local Time?

 
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kq6ea



Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:17 pm    Post subject: Localhost Runs UTC vs Local Time? Reply with quote

Hope this is the right place to post. Anyway...I have my PC clock set to UTC for a variety of reasons, and was wondering where wview sets the clock in the Vantage Pro2. I ran wviewconfig, vpconfig, and vpinstall, and didn't see anywhere that I could either set the vpro clock indepentantly of the system time, or enter an offset to compensate for my system time being UTC. I looked through the source code, and see that it appears to just pass the system time to the vpro. I understand this could get messy, as besides using an offset to compensate for UTC vs local, I'd also have to worry about DST. I haven't tried it yet, but I have a feeling if I manually set the vpro to the local time, wview will reset it when it starts, correct?
BTW...thanks for the help with the SUSE example file...it works perfectly!
-Jim
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mteel



Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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Location: Collinsville, TX

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You cannot run the wview host time at UTC and the VP console at some other GMT offset. They must be in sync. You can run them both at GMT offset 0, but not at different GMT offsets. I'm not sure why you would want to... wview uses the host time and the time reported by the console in archive records.

Yes, wview sets the VP console time at startup and every hour thereafter.

Mark
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