Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [bug #38798] timestamps are interpretted as UT rather than localtime, violating IPMI 2.0 section 37

[Liebig, Holger]

Al,
If this gets fixed (and if possible) could you please include handling of the 
optional Get SEL Time UTC offset command introduced in Errata 4? This can be 
used to convert non localtime timestamps back to calendar time and come in 
handy when a BMC is configured to use a NTP server. From calendar time you can 
then convert it to localtime or UTC using the appropriate libc functions 
(localtime_r() and gmtime_r()). And as generic improvement: customers with 
BMC's around the world might appreciate a command line option to display SEL 
timestamps in GMT in addition to localtime in order to correlate events to each 
other.

Thanks,
Holger

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> URL:
>   <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38798>
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>                  Summary: timestamps are interpretted as UTC rather than
> localtime, violating IPMI 2.0 section 37
>                  Project: GNU FreeIPMI
>             Submitted by: rswindell
>             Submitted on: Mon 22 Apr 2013 04:33:14 AM GMT
>                 Category: ipmi-sel
>                 Severity: 3 - Normal
>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
>               Item Group: Improper Behaviour
>                   Status: None
>                  Privacy: Public
>              Assigned to: None
>              Open/Closed: Open
>          Discussion Lock: Any
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> Details:
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> IPMI 2.0 section 37 ("Timestamp Format") states that all timestamps (e.g.
> for SDR repository and SEL) are "representing local time ... does not
> include GMT offset.", yet ipmi-sel and bmc-device interpret timestamps as
> though they are based on GMT/UTC and apply the local timezone bias before
> printing in human-readable form.
> 
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