Problem with date format and mminfo

Question

Hi gus, First of all, nice to meet you all. This is my first message so if this is in the wrong section, just let me know. I have a really strange problem. I have a networker server on windows and another in solaris. If I do a mminfo to obtain anything that has date on it, it should be: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM/PM So: If I pull information about the solaris server from the solaris server itself, everything's ok If I pull information about the windows server from the solaris server, everything's ok. Now starts the weird thing: If I pull information about the solaris or windows server from the windows server, 2 scenerios can happen If the date is between the first and 12th day of the month, the format will be MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM (24 hours) If the date is between 13th and the last day of the month, the format will be the same as always MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM/PM So, brief example: So, something (I guess) happens the first of the month and its reverted the 13th at 00:00am, but I cant find what. There's nothing in scheduled tasks. In the days with strange date, I check both 'date' CMD command and control panel and it shows the normal format. What could be that is making that? Any help would be appreciated, if you need any more infor just let me know. Thanks!

ble1 · Answer

Hint: DST change happened then (so I suspect this change also affected how things are being displayed for some reason).

Shubhadip_Datta · Answer

Hi,

mminfo will display the output for any date/time filed as per the local server date/time format (locale) from where you normally query.

So please make sure the date/time format is same in both the server then only you can expect the same output -

Below you can get some on locale setting for Solaris and windows.

Solaris :
- http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-2521/overview-39/index.html (Check for LC_TIME)
- How to change Locale settings on Solaris ? - UnixArena
Windows :
- Change the system locale - Windows Help
- Change the display of dates, times, currency, and measurements - Windows Help

Now coming to the solution -

i) You can use same format for the date/time in both the server.

ii) You can always query the mminfo from the same server. Use mminfo -s if you want to pull some other backup server data.

NetWorker

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