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Henry Huff Send message Joined: 5 Jun 05 Posts: 34 Credit: 152,856 RAC: 0 |
Is it possible to display message time in UTC as an option to displaying local time? |
Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0 |
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MikeSW17 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1603 Credit: 2,700,523 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Don Erway Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 305 Credit: 471,946 RAC: 0 |
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. Don |
Keith Kennedy Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 149 Credit: 244,165 RAC: 0 |
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" |
Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0 |
Where are you seeing messages posted with local time? The previous message in this board says (on my computer) They mean in their BOINC Manager under the Messages tab. My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242 |
Steve Cressman Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 583 Credit: 65,644 RAC: 0 |
I know that I'm at UTC - 4 so it is not difficult to do the math. :) 98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8 And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer. |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
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. |
ksnash Send message Joined: 28 Nov 99 Posts: 402 Credit: 528,725 RAC: 0 |
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.... You want a windows user to type in a command shell? :< |
DarkStar Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 119 Credit: 808,179 RAC: 0 |
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... |
ksnash Send message Joined: 28 Nov 99 Posts: 402 Credit: 528,725 RAC: 0 |
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 ... 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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