Varnish (3.04) runs in UTC time zone despite different local time zone

[Ben W.]

Software in use:

Ubuntu:

Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

Varnish:

  Installed: 3.0.0-4
  Candidate: 3.0.0-4
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.0-4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expected to happen:

Starting varnishd should let it run in system time.

What happened instead:

Varnish is ignoring both date (CEST) and hwclock (whatever I change it to after disabling NTP) and runs in UTC time (can be seen in syslog timestamps - everything else is fine - and in http response headers).

Please do let me know if I can be of any further assistance in resolving this bug.

[Sam Tresler (w-sam)]

I can confirm this is true on Debian Squeeze as well.

[Ruben Romero (huayra)]

Varnish forced TZ to UTC until recently, but this has changed starting on the 4.1.0 release.
This is now in debian experimental, as well as shipping with xenial.

Please close.