[Freeipa-users] Time bug

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:16:36 +1300
> Steven Jones<Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Americans are funny ppl they put the date format as month then
>> day.....the problem is in the real world, its day then month....
>>
>> So I have registered 1 client and 2 ipa masters as of 4th march 2011
>> NZST, but the IPA server's gui says I registered them a month in the
>> future, ie 3rd April 2011  GMT+12 NZST....very neat...
>>
>> ;]
>>
>> So you need some sort of detection script/software to sort that I
>> suspect.....or fix the display format in the gui...?
>>
>> Possibly this might not be helping with my issues as all my machines
>> think its NZST while the IPA master server's software might be
>> thinking they are telling it April? hence security certificates etc
>> go "boom"?
>
> No, it is just a display issue in the UI, internally all software uses
> unix timestamps and UTC.
>
> Simo.
>

I filed https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1053 for this issue

rob