Re: RCS date wrong

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Try investigating RCS's time zone features (what exist of them), and the
clock settings of the system host.
/a

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 address@hidden wrote:

>
> Dear RCS helpers
>
> Recently I discoverd a strange behaviour of RCS: The timestamp of a file
> under RCS-Control and the date showed in the $Header$,  $Log$ Variables
> and the rlog command have a difference of 1 hour. I'm sure this was ok
> half a year ago. What has changed? At the end of october 2004 in
> switzerland the time has changed from summertime to wintertime ( + 1 hour
> ). Now we have wintertime in switzerland and it seems, that the date in
> RCS has still summertime, while the timestamp is in wintertime. co -M
> testfile.txt also returns a file with the correct timestamp (wintertime).
> How can I adjust this?
>
> We work on an IBM Regatta Server using AIX 5.2.
>
> Here are the results of my invetigations:
>
> Testfile under RSC control:
>
> ~/work/testRcsBug> ls -las
> total 8
>    0 drwxrwxr-x   3 wly      staff        256 Dec 01 08:49 .
>    4 drwxrwxr-x   8 wly      staff       4096 Dec 01 08:49 ..
>    0 drwxrwxr-x   2 wly      staff        256 Dec 01 08:49 RCS
>    4 -r--r--r--   1 wly      staff        109 Dec 01 08:49 testfile.txt
> ~/work/testRcsBug> co -M testfile.txt
> RCS/testfile.txt,v  -->  testfile.txt
> revision 1.1
> done
> ~/work/testRcsBug> ls -las
> total 8
>    0 drwxrwxr-x   3 wly      staff        256 Dec 01 09:12 .
>    4 drwxrwxr-x   8 wly      staff       4096 Dec 01 08:49 ..
>    0 drwxrwxr-x   2 wly      staff        256 Dec 01 08:49 RCS
>    4 -r--r--r--   1 wly      staff        109 Dec 01 08:49 testfile.txt
> ~/work/testRcsBug> rlog testfile.txt
>
> RCS file: RCS/testfile.txt,v
> Working file: testfile.txt
> head: 1.1
> branch:
> locks: strict
> access list:
> symbolic names:
> keyword substitution: kv
> total revisions: 1;     selected revisions: 1
> description:
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.1
> date: 2004/12/01 07:49:46;  author: wly;  state: Exp;
> Initial revision
> =============================================================================
>
> With kind regards
>
> Walter Lyrer

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