[maatkit-discuss] UTC timestamps for mk-heartbeat

[Neil L. <nei...@tr...>]

Just wondering if there has ever been any consideration of this when 
monitoring replication to a slave in a different timezone.

Seems to be the quick fix is to replace now() references with 
UTC_TIMESTAMP()[including UNIX_TIMESTAMP(UTC_TIMESTAMP()) but this is 
not exactly portable.

Second consideration here is to use a:

strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",gmtime)

and similar comparisons or include dependancies to other Modules to 
handle time comparisons.

Thoughts?

Neil