Question

We have a Twiki that moved to a new VMWare virtual server. After move it was discovered after a few weeks that the system clock on the new new instance was running 8 month in the future.

Search our TWiki tree gives that some 700+ files currently been updated under twiki/.

Need to change the clock back to the correct time again. Is there a way to achieve this without damaging the TWiki?

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-- TWikiGuest - 09 Apr 2008

Answer

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The timestamps in the META data are in Unix time (seconds since 1970), e.g., now is 1207699200 and 8 months ago was 1186617600. So a simple search and replace on the .txt files (e.g., with TWiki:Plugins.GlobalReplacePlugin) probably isn't going to help: you'll want a script to do it.

Perhaps more importantly, RCS is fussy about changes happening in chronological order (e.g., TimeProblemOnTWikiDotOrg). [Now I wonder if the same problem would occur during the "fallback" DST change]. So you'll want to repair those too, unless you can live with losing all the revision history (deleting the .txt,v files).

I don't suppose you could just turn off the server for 8 months...

-- SeanCMorgan - 09 Apr 2008

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008