[Users] Timezone Hypervisor/VM

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 02:54:13PM +0000, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> > Von: Markus Stockhausen
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Februar 2014 14:46
> > An: Dan Kenigsberg; fromani at redhat.com
> > Cc: Bob; Martin Polednik; ovirt-users
> > Betreff: AW: [Users] Timezone Hypervisor/VM
> > 
> > >
> > > A detailed BZ report is worth its weight in gold ;-)
> > >
> > > Dan.
> > 
> > Opened BZ 1062615 for that.
> > 
> > Markus
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> just saw the bug update with target 3.4.1. Could you
> reproduce the bug and do you have some advice how to 
> handle that setting until then?

No, I did not reproduce the bug myself. I believe that your report is
true and asked Michal to get it fixed by ovirt-3.4.1 (frankly, let's ask
to fix it earlier!)

I have no intermediate remedy, save for manually editing utc_diff.

> And what should I expect 
> when daylight saving takes place in march?
> 
> >From my understanding I would:
> 
> - pin all VMs to utc_diff=3600 (GMT+1) now
> - pin all VMs to utc_diff=7200 (GMT+2) after change of summertime

Yes, assuming that the local admin of the VM do not want to change their
timezone - in Windows it means an update of the rtc, which is not saved
properly in Engine.

Dan.