Re: [squid-users] ACLs based on Time and LDAP groups

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:46:03 +0100

haven't had such problems on the RedHat 7.3 installs I have been in
contact with both with and without ntp.

Maybe the TZ variable was set to something bad when Squid started, or
/etc/localtime has been corrupted?

Regards
Henrik

On Thursday 28 November 2002 05.55, Michael Fuller / Hotmail wrote:

> I finally tracked down the problem. I have installed the NTP server
> daemon on the server running squid. Due to some bug in RH 7.3, the
> NTP daemon sets the local time zone to UTC. Our time zone is IST, 5
> 1/2 hours ahead of UTC.
>
> So, acl permit_lunchtime time MTWHFA 14:30-15:00 was actually in
> UTC translated to 20.00 - 20.30 in IST. I corrected the problem by
> changing the acl to 09.00-09.30.(UTC again) Now, it works fine.
>
> Moral of the story - Never put the NTPD daemon on a server using
> local time for anything. I feel like an ass, but anyways thanks
> everybody for your suppport :-)
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