[Dovecot] Addendum about time zones on AIX 5.1

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Aug 15 01:08:54 EEST 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:12 -0500, Jon Roma wrote:
> Timo, I have an addendum to our mail exchange about timezones.
> 
> It turns out that the various dovecot applications running on my AIX
> 5.1 system are logging in GMT instead of in local time.  I noticed this
> earlier, but in the course of troubleshooting the issue with mail
> reporting the wrong time zone, I forgot to report this to you -- my
> apologies!
> 
>     Jul 24 18:03:50 zippy dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
>     Jul 24 18:07:52 zippy dovecot: imap-login: Login: roma [192.17.16.93]

Actually it's the other way around. The TZ environment gets passed to
all child processes, but the Dovecot master process itself that does the
logging has forgotten about it. Fixed in CVS now.

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