Looks like its still a bug in the Erlang VM. Not much we can do unless someone wants to go and write a patch for OTP. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Nathaniel Cohen wrote: > Hi I ran into this issue from 2010 -- > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-627 > > immediately out of the gate after installing couchdb 1.2.0 … has there been any progress to address this one?  I've been following couchdb for awhile peripherally and am hoping to use it on an upcoming project. > > I spent awhile trying to figure out if I had set up something wrong before I found the true cause and changed timezones …  It makes me worried that this is the first thing I found when trying to use couchdb … > > I'm running os 10.7.3 and a recent erlang from macports. > >> Nathaniels-MacBook-Air:~ ncohen$ erl -V >> Erlang R15B (erts-5.9) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] > > Many Thanks, > Ben > > Nathaniel Cohen > Programmer/Analyst (SIO/STS) > ncohen@ucsd.edu > work: 858.534.9567 > mobile: 619.729.3320 >