Not really anything critical, but I'm a new Linode user and was reviewing the Linode Manager graphs today, which I assumed were in UTC, and they appeared to be an hour in the future. As I write this (05:24 UTC), the graphs show it as 06:24.

I realize I can set my timezone in my profile, but if I choose US/Eastern (I'm in NY), it says my GMT offset is -5, but at this point (daylight savings) I'm pretty sure it should be -4. So while that ends up looking right, the underlying data is still timestamped incorrectly.

I'm wondering - are the hosts (or just Linode Manager) running with outdated timezone rules, and/or just wacky? Maybe someone manually moved time forward to take into account the new timezone rules that a host didn't have, but then old rules kicked in at the normal time and bumped things another hour? Course then presumably it would still think US/Eastern was in EDT and have a -4 offset, so that doesn't seem to fit either.

I don't think it's host specific (I'm on newark41), since my Linode itself has the right time, but likely something just up in the Linode Manager or whatever is gathering the stats.

Anyway, just wondering why the time seemed off on the graphs...

-- David

It's the Coldfusion driving the web UI and not the hosts, from what I've heard. A bug somewhere in the date/time stack of the system that drives the Web interface and, consequently, the graphs. I'm set to America/Phoenix, a nice unique timezone all its own without DST, and the graphs are "off" for me as well.

I couldn't find the thread but I thought it'd been discussed before...maybe that was on IRC.

Thanks, easy enough to adapt to I guess. I did do some searches in the forum but mostly hit threads as to how to correct for your local timezone. I'm actually fine with UTC, but found it strange that even UTC, which isn't affected by timezone rules, was wrong. Although perhaps the raw data isn't actually in UTC.

-- David

I'm facing this small problem too. My timezone in my Linode profile is set as GMT+8 but I'm actually seeing GMT+9.

I've set my timezone to GMT+7 to compensate for this. Small annoyance.