On Jan 11, 2008 11:51 AM, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:

It appears that any given process is consistent about which timezone it uses, but there's no obvious reason why any particular process gets the local zone vs. UTC. For example, we have a couple of long-running daemons that fork children to handle network requests, and although the parent daemon consistently logs in one timezone, its forks (which do not even do an exec, so they should be identical to the parent) randomly switch to the other timezone.

It just occurred to me that these particular daemons are perl programs using Sys::Syslog, so maybe the problem is there.

The forked children continue using the same Sys::Sylog object created by the parent, though, so that still leaves me wondering about the inconsistent timezone after the fork.