Graphite

Changing Timezones

Asked by Mike Nolet

Hi,

I'm having some trouble updating the timezone for our graphite setup. I've tried editing the 'TIME_ZONE' variable in both settings.py and local_settings.py separately, but no luck:

[mnolet@metrics-01 web]$ sudo /etc/init.d/carbon-agent.sh stop
Stopping carbon-agent
[mnolet@metrics-01 web]$ sudo /etc/init.d/carbon-agent.sh start
Starting carbon-agent
[mnolet@metrics-01 web]$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[mnolet@metrics-01 web]$ grep TIME_ZONE *
local_settings.py:TIME_ZONE = 'America/New_York'
settings.py:TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
Binary file settings.pyc matches
[mnolet@metrics-01 web]$

Yet graphs are still showing in Chicago time (13:46 as last update versus 14:46 since last update).

Any clues?

-Mike

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Nikunj Shanti (me-nikunj) said : 		#1

I had the some problem. I modified the settings.py file to the correct timezone and it fixed the problem.

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chrismd (chrismd) said : 		#2

Yes now I remember, this is a bug (fixed in trunk). The problem is that settings.py reads in local_settings.py and then defines a few more settings, one of which is TIME_ZONE, so the settings.py value is overriding the local_settings.py value. For now just change it in settings.py as Nikunj suggests, the next release will solve this.

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