server time mismatch

salama · Post by **salama** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:31 am

I've added a zline for testing purposes at 5:52:39 to expire in 1 second. This is what I got:

05:52:39 !server *** Z:Line added for *@11.11.11.11 on Thu Sep 22 03:52:38 2005 GMT (from ircop!irc@net to expire at
Thu Sep 22 03:52:39 2005 GMT: test)
05:52:43 !server *** Expiring Z:Line (*@11.11.11.11) made by ircop!irc@net (Reason: test) set 5 seconds ago

now i'm interested whether it is possible to have accurate time info when the kline was made. is it possible(in this example) to adjust the clock 2 hours forward?

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:18 am

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but you'll find the server is going by it's own clock. Try a /time (and, with multiple servers, /tsctl alltime).

Matridom · Post by **Matridom** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:31 am

05:52:39 !server *** Z:Line added for *@11.11.11.11 on Thu Sep 22 03:52:38 2005 GMT (from ircop!irc@net to expire at ....

your in witch timezone?

aquanight · Post by **aquanight** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:49 pm

It doesn't matter. Unreal always uses GMT.

As for accuracy, I believe the timers are only checked every other second or something, since C doesn't have timers natively (duh) and short of multithreading (== evil), having accurate timers are really quite the pain in the arse.

(EDIT: oh, and also try getting ntpd on the server if you can.)

Matridom · Post by **Matridom** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:15 pm

aquanight wrote:It doesn't matter. Unreal always uses GMT.

correct, unreal does, however the time stamp he is matching it to is generated by his client witch normaly uses local time rather then GMT.

[12:38] -Irc.matridom.ca- *** G:Line added for [email protected] on Thu Sep 22 16:38:39 2005 GMT (from Matridom![email protected] to expire at Thu Sep 22 17:38:39 2005 GMT: test)

I'm in EST with daylight savings, so that's GMT - 4

He's comparing his clients time stamps to the servers time stamps
To me, it's looking like he's GMT +2.

or am i miss reading this and he's worried about 3-4 seconds difference in things? However, him commenting on 2 hour difference leads me to believe that's not the case.

Post by **Syzop** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:01 pm

*nod*

The IRC client time is local time, the other time is in GMT (as it says), assuming the server is in UTC+2 (CEST, large part of europe) then everything is fine :).