[OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to make duedate 2 hours instead of 7 hours

[Frances Dean McNamara]

Ah hah!  Thanks.  We'll look for that
 
Frances

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Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to make duedate 2 hours instead of 7 hours

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Frances Dean
McNamara<fdmcnama at uchicago.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>
>  7/20/2009 3:19:50 PM  78394           7/20/2009 10:19:57 PM  0 years 0 mons
> 0 days 2 hours 0 mins .00 secs  res2              default
>
[snip]
>
> How come for our 2 hours duration rule, we keep getting 7 hours to the
> duedate?  Any idea what could make that happen?
>

Sounds like you've got a timezone mismatch somewhere.  Either the
open-ils.circ application or the database thinks it's in UTC time and
the other thinks it is in CDT.  CDT has a -5h offset from UTC, which
combined with the 2h duration explains the 7 hours.

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