Gerrit sync queue is showing different timezone however my server is in diff timezone

[rahulkuma...@motorolasolutions.com]

Hello Team:

My server is in EDT timezone i changed it from UTC to EDT, when i run date command it is showing me like

gerritmasterserver$ date
Thu Oct 12 15:10:22 EDT 2017

however when i reload replication it is showing me UTC time :(

gerritmasterserver$ ssh -p 29418 gerrit2.mot-solutions.com gerrit show-queue -w
Task     State        StartTime         Command
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15d915f6 19:10:58.324 19:09:58.325      Plugin Cleaner (waiting for 1 plugins)
2ba5d6d4 15:02:59.281 14:02:59.282      Log File Compressor
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2 tasks

Any idea what needs to fix ?

Thanks in adavance

[Doug Robinson]

Are you sure you don't have a TZ environment variable in your environment?

Please execute this:   env -i PATH="$PATH" date

[rahulkuma...@motorolasolutions.com]

Hello:

Yes i do have this variable and this is showing me time in EDT 

# env -i PATH="$PATH" date

Thu Oct 19 16:06:30 EDT 2017

[Doug Robinson]

The command "env -i" will strip all environment variables out other than those shown on the command line and then run the command.  Doing it this way eliminates the interference of the TZ environment variable (and other possibilities).

According to that output your system time is set to EDT.

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[rahulkuma...@motorolasolutions.com]

Thanks for your reply

env -i is not showing me anything :(

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On Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 11:32:39 PM UTC-4, rahulkuma...@motorolasolutions.com wrote:

Thanks for your reply

env -i is not showing me anything :(

I'll try to explain this again.  You ran the command that I asked, and it did the following:

# env -i PATH="$PATH" date

Thu Oct 19 16:06:30 EDT 2017

Since the "env" command, using the "-i" option has removed all of the environment variables other than PATH (including TZ) from the environment and then ran the "date" command then it tells us that your system clock is, as you stated, set to EDT.  This is a totally independent verification.

What this does is to isolate the issue where Gerrit is printing out UTC to some setting either in Gerrit itself or set during Gerrit's startup.

I assume this isn't as easy as consulting the "gerrit.conf" file and finding the Timezone setting in there set to UTC.  Otherwise I expect you would have found/fixed this without any question here.

The next step would be to check how Gerrit is being started up on your system?  If it is being manually started by an administrator then you might want to check their environment for the TZ environment variable (or some such).

In general, process environment contamination during an application startup is one of the reasons to use the "service" command (assuming a pre-systemd system): on some/most of the systems that I use the "/sbin/service" command makes use of the "env -i" command to very strictly control the application's environment.

Cheers.

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 3:25:37 PM UTC-4, rahulkuma...@motorolasolutions.com wrote:

My server is in EDT timezone i changed it from UTC to EDT, when i run date command it is showing me like

gerritmasterserver$ date
Thu Oct 12 15:10:22 EDT 2017

however when i reload replication it is showing me UTC time :(

gerritmasterserver$ ssh -p 29418 gerrit2.mot-solutions.com gerrit show-queue -w
Task     State        StartTime         Command
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15d915f6 19:10:58.324 19:09:58.325      Plugin Cleaner (waiting for 1 plugins)
2ba5d6d4 15:02:59.281 14:02:59.282      Log File Compressor
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2 tasks

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