issue with CVS and time skew

[John Mellor]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 11:44 +1300, Gregory Machin wrote:
> I have a user complaining that when he submits code to the cvs
> repository the time stamps for the commit are out by 13 hours. I have
> checked all the servers and they all have the correct date, time and
> time zone. Where else could an issue like this come from ?

CVS uses the local time of the client when checking in the files, so ask
the user to correct the time on their machine, not the server time.  On
checkout, the time of checkin on the server is used, and that would
explain the rather large discrepancy.