Time and Timezones

[IvanW]

Hi All,

I have managed to install cacti onto Windows XP and with the help of the message board have got everything pretty much running as required. I have an outstanding problem with time though.

I am in New Zealand which is GMT +12. When using cmd.php I can see from the logging that data is being put into the rrd files with the correct timestamp. When I use cactid I can see that entries are put into the rrd file with a timestamp 12 hours ahead of the current time. I really want cactid to use the correct time.

My system is set to NZST and to the correct local time. I have also noticed that the time shown when viewing graphs is shown as GMT not NZST.

Any ideas, sugestions and solutions much appreciated.

[adrianmarsh]

Well, I'm currently in BST, using cactid, and it all works ok.

There are two parts to windows Timezones. Local user and system. Can you verify they are both on +12?

[IvanW]

I mangaed to get this working now with both cmd.php and cactid. It seems that php wasn't able to tell what timezone my machine was in. After a lot of searching and trial and error I found that you can set the timezone in php.ini. In my case adding date.timezone="Pacific/Auckland" fixed it. A good source for the timezone options which I found hard to find is http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzref.tzc