[Users] DST and accounting

[Tavis P]

Dimo wrote:
> Hello,
> I have sent this a while ago but it did not come, so if you are
> getting the mail for the second time sorry.
>
> You may be aware of the accounting problem with Daylight Savings Time.
> Currently in Radius accounting we have a timestamp of the event
> acoording to system clock (i think). So if a call starts soon before a
> daylight saving change and ends soon after it, it may have too big or
> negative duration, depending on whethere the clock moved forward or
> backward.
>
> Is there a way to make accounting take notice of that (maybe
> accounting in gmt+offset or something?)
>
> Any ideas appreciated, as you know DST is comming soon for europe at
> least.
>
> Dimitar
>
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I'm not certain if OpenSER creates adjusted timestamp values (to UTC) or
uses the localtime, however i would recommend that you set the local
timezone of your OpenSER server to "UTC", that will cleanly work around
the problem (err, if it is even a problem ;)

tavis