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

[dreamatdrew]

Yeah, I get that. The thought was "um, shouldn't we get rid of the expectation, since it seems possible to get the code to get UTC for us?"

[exor674]

We should. It's just that we've made the assumption in so many places, adding the check now was easier then fixing all the places. That should totally be a long-term project.

[afuna]

Filed!