[SOLVED] Squids 3.5.12 error message page displays the wrong time.

forneylloyd@hotmail.com · 04-02-2017, 10:07 PM

How do I change the time environment variable not to use GMT but the local time. I have Ubuntu Server 16.04 installed and Squid 3.5.12. When I go to a website this is restricted or denied an Error page is generated and at the bottom of the Error Page Squid generates the following message: Generated Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:14:53 GMT by The*Proxy (squid/3.5.12). My time is Los Angeles and my current time is Local time is now: Sun Apr 2 18:01:55 PDT 2017. Current default time zone: 'America/Los_Angeles' But if you notice the message generated by Squid, it not only is 6 hours ahead of my time but that actual date is off.

I read where I could add a line in the ~/.bashrc, TZ='America/Los_Angeles'; export TZ, that did not work. I read where the TZ environment variable could be changed. The problems is I don't know how to change the Time or TZ environment variable.

But it is obvious that the Squid Proxy Software is using GMT and my local machine is using local time. I am also using ntp and ntpdate, both are using the correct time. Can you help me?

michaelk · 04-02-2017, 10:42 PM

Actually PDT UTC offset is -7:00 hours not -6:00 and the date with respect to UTC is correct. squid uses UTC (GMT) by default. Technically the computer is always using UTC but the date and logs convert to local time based on the time zone configuration.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq...error_messages.

forneylloyd@hotmail.com · 04-03-2017, 01:31 AM

This is what I understand: Squid, by default, uses GMT as timestamp in all generated error messages. This to allow the cache to participate in a hierarchy of caches in different timezones without risking confusion about what the time is...

My question is, Buy allowing the cache to participate in different timezones, should I not change this setting, is it okay to leave the setting at its default?

Thanks for your help, I am new to Linux.

Lloyd

michaelk · 04-03-2017, 05:51 AM

It is just how time is being displayed nothing more.

A quick look through the squid.conf did not find a setting to change the error message time stamp. You can change the log time format if desired.

bathory · 04-03-2017, 08:17 AM

@OP

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When I go to a website this is restricted or denied an Error page is generated and at the bottom of the Error Page Squid generates the following message: Generated Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:14:53 GMT by The*Proxy (squid/3.5.12). My time is Los Angeles and my current time is Local time is now: Sun Apr 2 18:01:55 PDT 2017. Current default time zone: 'America/Los_Angeles' But if you notice the message generated by Squid, it not only is 6 hours ahead of my time but that actual date is off.

According to this, you only need to change %T to %t in the aprpriate error page (that is ERR_ACCESS_DENIED in your case)

Regards