What time is it again?

[dreamatdrew]

So, I finally managed to get an up-to-date copy of DW's source, and went about installing.
And... checkconfig tells me no. "Timezone must be UTC."
This is from http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3785 , which specifically added the check because "[t]he code expects system time to be GMT or really weird things happen".

I do not function on GMT. Therefore, my computer does not function on GMT. Therefore, no DW install for me.

So, I did a LITTLE investigating. Unless I'm completely mistaken, the "gimmie GMT" time functions are already built in to core perl. So, it should be possible to hack out that little requirement. Yes, it'd be a lot of tediousness. But I'm thinking not actually all that hard.

Am I wrong here? Opinions plz?

Comments

[geekosaur]

Not a hack at all. I set timezone for my account in my ec2 instance (the system default is UTC).

As for the rest, it occurs to me that it's not just Perl that one might need to worry about. Consider default values for DATETIME columns in mysql, for example. (The database engine runs under its own account.)

[pauamma]

I suspect the main hurdle will be making sure all servers are consistent. (Database, web, Mogile, and maybe also Perlbal and Pound.)