Re: Trouble with time

As far as I know the time ACL uses localtime, not GMT.

A probable cause if your Squid seems to base time ACLs on GMT is that
Squid isn't picking up your local time zone.

As a test: Edit one of your error pages and include the text

<P>GMT: %T<BR>
LocalTime: %t</P>

Then cause this error page to be displayed.

If both prints GMT(UTC) time then the timezone setup for your host is
not right.

No, Squid does not have it's own definition of timezones. It uses the
standard time functions provided by libc. In the case of time ACL it is
the function localtime().

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Simon Bryan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We have just upgraded to Mandrake 6.0 and Squid 2.2 STABLE4. When we
> setup we set the CMOS time to GMT and used Linuxconf to set the system
> time (The setup we previously had on RH4.2 and Squid 1). However Squid
> seems to read the CMOS or GMT time rather than the local system time,
> this means that none of my time based acl's are working correctly. I know I
> can just adjust them to GMT time , but is there a way to tell Squid to use the
> local time instead? I could not see anything in the conf file or the FAQ.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Simon Bryan                    sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au
> Information Technology Manager sbryan@mpx.com.au
> OLMC Parramatta