Re: Date format

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, April 18, 2014 7:22 PM -0700 Frans Lanting - IT Admin 
<itadmin@lanting.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> This refers to the OpenLDAP found in OS X Server, which Apple calls
> Open Directory.
>
> I'm trying to determine the time when an OpenLDAP replica got its last
> update from the OpenLDAP master, so on a replica I do the following:
>
> % sudo slapconfig -getreplicaconfig
>
> Replica LDAP server
> Updated: 2014-04-18 22:29:01 +0000
> List Of Replicas
> od-example.com - OK
>
>
> My question is the date/time format as seen above, since it does not
> appear to be GMT/UTC or the server time, so any clarification on this
> would be most appreciated! I don't see any reference to this
> slapconfig man page or in Apple server documentation.

Ldap uses Zulu time (AKA GMT).  See section 4.2.6 at 
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5755.txt>

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Architect - Server
Zimbra, Inc.
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