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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>As an update to this I’ve just had a look at the client data and it’s posting a time of </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>mtime:1332755134 (2012/03/26-09:45:34)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Current epoch time on the server is
showing as 1332751779 which gives a result of -3355. I’m assuming it’s
this negative number that’s causing the issue. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It looks to me as though the Windows
server is calculating epoch time incorrectly as if I convert that time to
normal it comes out at 10:45, not 9:45<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It’s a Windows 2000 server running
BBWin 0.12<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Neil Simmonds<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 March 2012 09:35<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Xymon] British
Summertime</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We’ve got a strange issue occurring since yesterday
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We monitor a file to make sure it has been updated in the
last 32 minutes but it’s currently flagging red claiming the file was last
modified 4294964222 seconds ago (just over 136 years).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I can only assume that this has been caused by the clock
change from GMT to BST and I suspect that as the client is Windows and the
server is Linux that the server is using UTC for the calculation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Has anyone seen this behaviour and more importantly, does
anyone know how to fix it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve looked through man pages for analysis.cfg,
bbwin.cfg and xymonserver.cfg but can’t see anything that might help. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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