perfsonar development work

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

Hi all,

migration is completed.

greetings,
Jochen

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 09:29, Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this afternoon (CEST ;-) ) I will update our Hades production system to a
> new version. There were some bugs and feature requests related to time,
> date, and time zone issues. To get things done a lot of internal rework was
> necessary. I migrated to a completely different Perl module for date/time
> support. Nevertheless, you won't see a lot of changes. Changes were mostly
> internal. You might realize that the date format is now more
> "international", e.g. normally YYYY-MM-DD is used instead of DD.MM.YYYY. In
> some places you should even find localised date and time strings.
>
> Let me draw your attention to one really important change, you should be
> aware of: All times are UTC now! This has several reasons:
> - Date/time calculation is much faster this way. Internally we even use
> Epoch seconds now to speed up things a little bit.
> - Plotting becomes a lot easier, because UTC is not "jumping around" like
> e.g. CET/CEST.
> - We are thinking about flexible time zone selection for our visualisation.
> But there a lot of problems related to this...
>
> There are smaller changes in the visualisation:
> - Traceroute labels are now clickable. You can open a window showing the
> traceroute "log".
> - Plotting symbol selection is now far more intuitive.
> - Minor changes on layout and text.
>
> Sorry, that this is not the long awaited finalisation of our new
> visualisation. We need more time for this ;-)
>
> Since this is an internal rework there might be some new bugs in the
> system. E.g. the perfSONAR services should not be affected since they only
> use Epoch seconds for now, but who knows... So please keep an eye on it and
> report strange behaviour to 
> 
>
> regards,
> Jochen

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