Re: [pcp] Reporting archive timezone

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [...]
> pmval handles this correctly, without -Z/-z it reports first metric at
> 06:53:01 which was 9 hours earlier at EET-2 than 15:53 at AEDT-11.

>From my scanning of the code, I believe pmval really doesn't touch the
timezone settings ($TZ etc) at all in the default case ...

> pmdumptext/pmrep however report first metric at 07:53:03, thus they
> report as it had been EEST-3 here in February. (With -Z/-z both
> pmdumptext and pmrep use the correct time.)

... whereas pmdumptext does always modify TZ to what it works out the
local timezone to be - perhaps there's something unexpected happening
there for pmdumptext.

> Below is a patch to fix pmrep to do the same as pmval.

I think that's a good strategy here, pmval is certainly using a simpler
approach.

cheers.

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Nathan