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#13398 Backup name: [DATE] variable appears to be GMT rather than site time zone

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 27 August 2012 03:09 CDT

Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:08 CDT

agnamr
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.6)
PHP version: (5.3.17)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, pair.com)
Akeeba Backup version: (3.6.3)

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Description of my issue: I am saving a backup using the command line (cli backup)started by a cron job. My site time zone is US pacific time (from configuration.php: public $offset = 'America/Los_Angeles';). The backup name is set to structuresolver-[DATE]. The backup cron job ran at 8 pm Pacific time on 8/26. The created file was named structuresolver-20120827 (should have been structuresolver-20120826).
I can send you the log file if necessary.
Thanks
Mary Rogan

Monday, 27 August 2012 03:09 CDT

nicholas
The actual code which asks Joomla! to fetch the date and time in local format can be found in administrator/components/com_akeeba/akeeba/platform/joomla25/platform.php in function get_local_timestamp. When I test my CRON job script I do get whatever I have set up in my Joomla! configuration.php. The problem that I do see is that Joomla! ignores the timezone passed to JDate unless you pass a second parameter to JDate::format(). Which is the opposite behaviour from the Joomla! 1.5 API which would return the local time by default. Dang! This will be fixed in a future version of Akeeba Backup.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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