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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:36:54 -0400
From: Tim Funk <funkman@joedog.org>
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Subject: Re: System Clock Issues with Webapps
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Use the JAVA_OPTS option on startup to set the timezone property.

-Tim


David Rickard wrote:
> Server: SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
> Apache: 2.0.47
> Tomcat: 4.1.29
> 
> Our server is used by divisions in multiple timezones, so the system 
> clock is set to UTC to simplify log writing etc;
> Each system user--including root--has a profile which masks the system 
> clock to the appropriate time zone; root is masked to US-Pacific, the 
> physical location of the server (confirmed by running "date" as root).
> Apache and Tomcat run as root processes and should use root's profile; 
> however, they sometimes "bypass" the profile and report UTC date/time 
> value (evidenced by outputting the value of a java.util.Date in a JSP).
> Doing an Apache/Tomcat restart will correct this system--so that our 
> time JSP reports US-Pacific time as expected; however, Apache/Tomcat 
> will revert (usually in less than a day) to reporting UTC time.
> Any ideas on why this is happening? and how we can correct it?
> 


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