[cvsnt] Re: TimeZone Setting

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Fri Aug 20 07:03:35 BST 2004


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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:37:11 +0100, "He, Hodgen"
<hodgen.he at bearingpoint.com> wrote:

>
>Hi, All
>Our server and clients are using Beijing time(GMT +8).
>But the developers use wincvs to get the log of the file and the time is always 8 hours before the actual time.
>And the timestamp displayed in wincvs is also 8 hours before.
>It seems that cvsnt always use the GMT time not our time zone.
>That confuse the developers a lot.
>How can solve this?
>Thanks.
> 
You can't!
CVS is built to be a cooperative system where people around the globe
can participate and therefore it uses UTC (not GMT) universally.
It is in the core of CVS...


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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