asterisk users - Aug 2006 - STRFTIME dialplan function not picking up system timezone

Hi all,

I've just been playing with the STRFTIME dialplan function and am having 
trouble getting it to pickup my systems local timezone.

According to show function STRFTIME and voip-info.org all the arguments are 
optional and according to voip-info.org if you leave them out they will 
default to the current time, the current timezone and %c respectively.

My local timezone is Pacific/Auckland (GMT+12) which is setup correctly 
AFAIK - date returns the correct time and timezone. I have also tried setting 
TZ=Pacific/Auckland and running asterisk at that console which didn't alter 
the behaviour.

If I call a test extension with this in the dialplan;

NoOp(${STRFTIME(,,)}))
NoOp(${STRFTIME(,Pacific/Auckland,)}))

then I get this output (shortened) ;

NoOp("SIP/800-081778a4", "Tue Aug 15 22:11:36 2006)")
NoOp("SIP/800-081778a4", "Wed Aug 16 10:11:36 2006)")

I have also tried reading asterisk/stdtime/localtime.c which is (I think) 
where this stuff goes on but it's over my head.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why I can't get this to work or am I 
expecting the wrong behaviour (using SVN trunk)?

Cheers,

hads

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http://nicegear.co.nz
New Zealand's VoIP supplier

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 10:18, Hadley Rich wrote:
> I've just been playing with the STRFTIME dialplan function and am
having
> trouble getting it to pickup my systems local timezone.
>
> According to show function STRFTIME and voip-info.org all the arguments are
> optional and according to voip-info.org if you leave them out they will
> default to the current time, the current timezone and %c respectively.
>
> My local timezone is Pacific/Auckland (GMT+12) which is setup correctly
> AFAIK - date returns the correct time and timezone. I have also tried
> setting TZ=Pacific/Auckland and running asterisk at that console which
> didn't alter the behaviour.
>
> If I call a test extension with this in the dialplan;
>
> NoOp(${STRFTIME(,,)}))
> NoOp(${STRFTIME(,Pacific/Auckland,)}))
>
> then I get this output (shortened) ;
>
> NoOp("SIP/800-081778a4", "Tue Aug 15 22:11:36 2006)")
> NoOp("SIP/800-081778a4", "Wed Aug 16 10:11:36 2006)")
>
> I have also tried reading asterisk/stdtime/localtime.c which is (I think)
> where this stuff goes on but it's over my head.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why I can't get this to work or am I
> expecting the wrong behaviour (using SVN trunk)?
After further playing it's not just STRFTIME. Voicemail and other things
such
as SayUnixTime are showing GMT time although cdrs (using cdr-csv) and 
Asterisk logs show the correct time.

From looking at the code it appears that logs and cdrs use localtime_r 
directly whereas the dialplan functions use stdtime/localtime in the Asterisk 
source. Although as I said, that's a bit above me in terms of C.

Anyone have any ideas?

hads

-- 
http://nicegear.co.nz
New Zealand's VoIP supplier