Heritrix: Internet Archive Web Crawler

This issue is now discussed in the new JIRA tracker at
http://webteam.archive.org/jira/browse/HER-85 -- please add further
comments at that location.

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Added line (on Oct 22) seems to have fixed. Closing.

For reference, the commit comment:

Fix for [ 908690 ] Some dates are GMT, others are not
* Heritrix.java
Use TimeZone.setDefault("GMT") at launch time to cause
most (if not all ) system times to be shown in GMT.

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Looks like adding this line:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

...atop Heritrix.main() causes the TZ for all logging/etc to
become GMT, without confusing any code about the real time.
(Heritrix UI and logging that was in GMT still is, but java
logging that wasn't now is too.)

Going to run with the change for a while then will commit to
HEAD and perhaps 1.0.x as well.

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Need to make a version of Formatter that does GMT dates.

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Reopened. Class loggers such as that in
org.archive.io.RecordingInputStream logs w/ non-GMT
timestamps. Made it low priority issue.

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Igor and I reran over the logs and arcs that was the cause
of our filing this issue and all seemed fine; all timestamps
in logs, filenames, and inside arcs were GMT. Closing issue
as invalid.

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All dates (and timestamps) should be gotten via methods on
ArchiveUtils class. They ensure that the dates are GMT.

More details on where problems were occuring would be useful.