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Message 228583 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:13:29 UTC

Is it possible to display message time in UTC as an option to displaying local time?
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Message 228588 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:25:38 UTC

Change your timezone.



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Message 228591 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:33:19 UTC - in response to Message 228583.  

Is it possible to display message time in UTC as an option to displaying local time?


Control Panel, Date/Time, Time Zone and Select appropriate zone ;)
But of course that would change the whole system.

Personally, when I need to convert times I use MS TimeZone utility for quick look-up.

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Message 228594 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:38:29 UTC

I agree with this.

It is almost a bug, to have boincmgr display local time.

Everything on the web site, all contact times and result listings, etc, are all UTC.

It makes it un-necessarily difficult to compare the 2, check for reasonableness, etc.

It would be trivial to make BOINC display UTC, (if a preference is set say), and I think it would be an improvement.

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Message 228595 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:38:30 UTC
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Where are you seeing messages posted with local time? The previous message in this board says (on my computer)
"Posted 9 Jan 2006 23:38:29 UTC"
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Message 228603 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 23:55:04 UTC - in response to Message 228595.  

Where are you seeing messages posted with local time? The previous message in this board says (on my computer)
"Posted 9 Jan 2006 23:38:29 UTC"


They mean in their BOINC Manager under the Messages tab.



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Message 228909 - Posted: 10 Jan 2006, 17:31:22 UTC

I know that I'm at UTC - 4 so it is not difficult to do the math.
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Message 228911 - Posted: 10 Jan 2006, 17:43:38 UTC

Being predominantly a penguin hugger (Linux) I don't know if something like this would work in Windows, and I don't have any Windows machines here at the moment to try it. In Linux you can start a new shell and set the timezone that's used just in that instance, and doesn't effect the rest of the system....

export TZ="utc" ; boincmgr

... for example. Don't know if something similar could be implemented in the wonderful world of Windows or not.

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Message 229109 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 1:29:53 UTC - in response to Message 228911.  

Being predominantly a penguin hugger (Linux) I don't know if something like this would work in Windows, and I don't have any Windows machines here at the moment to try it. In Linux you can start a new shell and set the timezone that's used just in that instance, and doesn't effect the rest of the system....

export TZ="utc" ; boincmgr

... for example. Don't know if something similar could be implemented in the wonderful world of Windows or not.



You want a windows user to type in a command shell? :<

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Message 229134 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 2:15:09 UTC - in response to Message 229109.  

You want a windows user to type in a command shell? :<
Actually, on anything this side of 98 (I think), even environment variables don't need to be typed in the command shell. That said ...

There is a TZ environment variable, which generally takes the form of TZ=EST5EDT (depending on where you're located, of course). It's not a default variable, though - it has to be added manually. Also, there's no "export TZ" functionality, so it's up to the applications that want it to use it. BOINCMGR seems to ignore it, even if set.

For whatever it's worth...
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Message 229137 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 2:28:01 UTC - in response to Message 229134.  

You want a windows user to type in a command shell? :<
Actually, on anything this side of 98 (I think), even environment variables don't need to be typed in the command shell. That said ...

There is a TZ environment variable, which generally takes the form of TZ=EST5EDT (depending on where you're located, of course). It's not a default variable, though - it has to be added manually. Also, there's no "export TZ" functionality, so it's up to the applications that want it to use it. BOINCMGR seems to ignore it, even if set.

For whatever it's worth...

I think you have to adjust the windows timeserver in a shell. Some commands are shown on this page:
http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/bltip553.htm

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