[Users] DST and accounting

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Dimo, Hi Tavis,

up to devel version, openser did not sent any timestamp via RADIUS- what 
you were getting was the timestamp set by the RADIUS server when 
receiving the radius package; so it is about configuring RADIUS server / OS.

in devel version, a UNIX timestamp of the SIP package is sent via all 
backends and you can use it as it is more reliable. Also UNIX time is 
not affected by DST.

regards,
bogdan

Tavis P wrote:

>Dimo wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Is there a way to make accounting take notice of that (maybe
>>accounting in gmt+offset or something?)
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>>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 ;)
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>tavis
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