[6.1/Trunk] server timezone config is silently ignored

Hi,

It is a design choice in OpenERP 6.1 to forcefully set the server timezone to UTC and ignore the previous --timezone configuration parameter. There are many good reasons for this, and you may find some further explanations about them in some related bug reports: bug 918257 (especially comment #4) and further technical discussions in bug 925361.

I understand that this may look like a bug because the --timezone option was not removed and does not report a warning when you try to use it. So I suggest we change the description of this bug to explain that this is confusing and needs to be changed.

Thanks!

I did few tests to see the problem,

Try to see the file /openerp-6.1-1/openerp/tools/config.py at line 438, I think the problem comes from there:

  # TODO checking the type of the parameters should be done for every
        # parameters, not just the timezone.
        # The call to get_server_timezone() sets the timezone; this should
        # probably done here.
        if self.options['timezone']:
            # Prevent the timezone to be True. (The config file parsing changes
            # the string 'True' to the boolean value True. It would be probably
            # be better to remove that conversion.)
            die(not isinstance(self.options['timezone'], basestring),
                "Invalid timezone value in configuration or environment: %r.\n"
                "Please fix this in your configuration." %(self.options['timezone']))

            # If an explicit TZ was provided in the config, make sure it is known

I try to view the self.options['timezone'], but all time it is FALSE.Normally the value should be the result of method get_server_timezone().

I think it is a bug from openErp

if you have an idea, can you tell me.

Olivier Dony told me a while ago that it isn't a bug, but a design
choise. (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/970538/comments/1).
So we dropped this subject.

I still don't fully agree with this, but I understand their point.
¿What do you propose?

Regards