display GMT time instead of local time in Entry time/ Last edit field, posted by Dan Duong on Tue Jul 28 02:50:42 2009
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Hi all,
I have set my PC in Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
I have installed in another PC. Which has Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I still get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
Please help. Thank you very much.
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Re: display GMT time instead of local time in Entry time/ Last edit field, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 28 11:04:01 2009
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| Dan Duong wrote: |
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Hi all,
I have set my PC in Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
I have installed in another PC. Which has Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I still get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
Please help. Thank you very much.
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That's strange. I use the C function localtime() to obtain the local time from Windows. The documentation says that this function checks the Windows control panel and returns the proper local time. So far, nobody complained so I guess only you have this problem (anybody else to correct me???). The only hint I found is to set the environment variable TZ. So open a DOS box and enter
set TZ=AST+10
then start elogd.exe interactively in that dos box and see if you get something else. |
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Re: display GMT time instead of local time in Entry time/ Last edit field, posted by Dan Duong on Wed Jul 29 04:56:27 2009
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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| Dan Duong wrote: |
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Hi all,
I have set my PC in Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
I have installed in another PC. Which has Time Zone GMT+10:00 but I still get GMT time in Entry time/Last edit field.
Please help. Thank you very much.
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That's strange. I use the C function localtime() to obtain the local time from Windows. The documentation says that this function checks the Windows control panel and returns the proper local time. So far, nobody complained so I guess only you have this problem (anybody else to correct me???). The only hint I found is to set the environment variable TZ. So open a DOS box and enter
set TZ=AST+10
then start elogd.exe interactively in that dos box and see if you get something else.
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I did as instructed but time was 20 hours behide
I have entered set TZ=AST-10 I got the correct time. I think my elog files have been changed by someone. elogd file is running in DOS box now. Please help how to run elog as normal or correct elog files. Which file I should check. Is it elconv.c file? Thank you Stefan. |
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Re: display GMT time instead of local time in Entry time/ Last edit field, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jul 29 09:21:39 2009
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| Dan Duong wrote: |
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I did as instructed but time was 20 hours behide
I have entered set TZ=AST-10 I got the correct time. I think my elog files have been changed by someone. elogd file is running in DOS box now. Please help how to run elog as normal or correct elog files. Which file I should check. Is it elconv.c file? Thank you Stefan.
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You have to change your environment variable "TZ" system wide. You do that by going to
My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Environment Variables/New
then you enter TZ as the variable name and AST-10 as the value. You might have to reboot your computer. |
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Re: display GMT time instead of local time in Entry time/ Last edit field, posted by Dan Duong on Mon Aug 3 03:26:23 2009
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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| Dan Duong wrote: |
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I did as instructed but time was 20 hours behind.
I have entered set TZ=AST-10 I got the correct time. I think my elog files have been changed by someone. elogd file is running in DOS box now. Please help how to run elog as normal or correct elog files. Which file I should check. Is it elconv.c file? Thank you Stefan.
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You have to change your environment variable "TZ" system wide. You do that by going to
My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Environment Variables/New
then you enter TZ as the variable name and AST-10 as the value. You might have to reboot your computer.
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It is working with the correct time stamp now. Thanks you very much Stefan. |
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Re: synchronization, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Aug 3 10:16:12 2009
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Thanks for the reply.
This happens on automatic mirroring and by manual sync. However only the site initializing the mirror is locked out the remote seems to still be able to function.
The CPU jumps from very little usage to 50%+ being used by elogd.exe as soon as you start the mirroring/sync process
I have attached a file that that is in three parts and its pretty big. When I start up the elogd -v it takes over two minutes to scroll through hundreds of files. I have attached the last of those entries in the first part of the attached PDF, the second part of the PDF shows a manual sync and the third part shows the same sync on the same logbook a few mins later. It seems to take about 3 minutes even when there has been no new log entries. In addition if you are mirroring more that one log book through the automated cron job it can take about 3-5 mins before the second logbook starts its replication. I have also added a screenshot of the completed replications on both runs.
If there is a way to redirect the output of the cmd window when running elogd -v I would capture all the data for you but the standard redirect ">> elog.txt" only creates a blank file.
We are running several logbooks and it does look like the smaller logbooks still take several minutes to start up. I have attached the PMCLogfile and if you look between the NSS and the AMC replications on any day there seems to be a 3 min gap between one book finishing and another starting.
We are not using Apache prox in between.
I am not a programmer but I can follow instruction, if you need anything else let me know.
Stefan this has been driving me nuts for a while now so any help you can give would be more than appreciated.
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Sorry my late reply but I'm pretty busy these days...
I don't have a clear solution, just a few thoughts:
- Network handling has benn improved recently, so I propose you first upgrade to Version 2.7.7
- Looking at your sync logs, I see many lines of the form
19-Jun-2009 15:41:05 [lance@127.0.0.1] {NSS} MIRROR change entry #1095 to #23357
19-Jun-2009 15:41:05 [lance@127.0.0.1] {NSS} DELETE entry #1095
19-Jun-2009 15:41:05 [lance@127.0.0.1] {NSS} MIRROR send entry #23357
this indicates that you add entries to both logbooks (with ID 1095) in this case. Then elog has a problem, since you have new entries with ID 1095 on both sides. So the only solution is to re-submit the entry #1095 on the source logbook as a new entry (with ID #23357 in this case), delete the old one and then submit the new one. This happens very often, which takes quite some time. Mirroring mainly makes sense if there is one active logbook where new entries gets submitted, and the second logbook is mainly as backup and read-only. Then mirroring is very effective. If you submit on both sides very heavily new entries, the merge process is quite complicated.
- If nothing has changed on both sides and you still have heavy synchronization work, it means that both logbooks kind of became inconsistent, and elog tries to sort that out. So a good starting point is to manually copy all xxxxxxa.log files from one side to the other, thus ensuring both logbooks are 100% identical. Then restart both elogd servers, issue a manual synchronization, and make sure it reports back to you that everything is identical.
Hope some of this helps,
Stefan
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Logbook Parser, posted by Alan Grant on Tue Aug 11 00:20:11 2009
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We are exploring whether it's possible/feasible to import ELog logbooks into a another database for special purposes (plotting/statisical, etc). Target database is TBD (perhaps Access).
Does anyone have or know of a logbook parser program? From cut/pasting into, for example, Excel, it does appear that the data fields are already line-feed delimited so offhand it would seem possible to parse if one really wanted to pursue it.
Regards,
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List Option, posted by Alan Grant on Tue Aug 11 08:10:21 2009
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Hello Stefan.
Currently this is defined as a maximum of 100 literals in the cfg file. I would like to see the option to reference an external text file as input for this.
As a side question, I would also like to increase the max to a greater value, for example, even 5000. I assume I can change the source (I recall var was something like "List_Option_Max") and see if that would still work, but would you know offhand if that would cause a problem anywhere else?
Regards,
Alan
(PS: Just getting started with ELog. Please excuse if these questions sound newbie. I also searched the Forum first but haven't found any answers to them yet.) |