I am running BOINC on a RHEL 5 system. I am running the same thing on a CentOS 4 system. When I run the boincmgr on both systems and look at the Tasks window, they look a little different. In particular, one shows the "To Completion" field as a 12-hour clock with AM or PM as appropriate. The other shows a 24-hour clock (which is narrower).

$ ls -l BOINC/boinc*
-rwxr-x--- 1 boinc boinc 2004948 Mar 5 10:47 BOINC/boinc
-rwxrwx--- 1 boinc jdbeyer 8820236 Oct 2 2007 BOINC/boincmgr

Since they seem to be the same code, at least the same dates and sizes, it must be that the difference is in a configuration file somewhere.

Is that true, and if so, where is it?

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Is one OS set to show a 12 hour clock and the other a 24 hour clock?

That works on windows vista. I changed the time format in the OS and BOINCmgr picked right up on it.

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Is one OS set to show a 12 hour clock and the other a 24 hour clock?

Where do you mean? On my GNOME desktop, they are both set to 24 hour clock. On the CentOS 4 machine, that I access through my LAN, it shows a 24-hour clock, but on my "local" machine (both machines are actually in the same room) it shows AM|PM.

If I login to the CentOS 4 machine on its console, it is the same as when I login remotely; i.e., a 24-hour clock.

BTW: the year is 08 on the CentOS 4 machine and it is 2008 on the RHEL 5.2 machine.

I think you do not mean how it is set in GNOME, though, because on the CentOS machine, GNOME is not even running most of the time.

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Is one OS set to show a 12 hour clock and the other a 24 hour clock?

That works on windows vista. I changed the time format in the OS and BOINCmgr picked right up on it.

To get proper due time sorting in BOINC tasks grid view it was needed to set the OS to a 24 hour clock.

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Just tested 6.2.6 and it sorts properly with a 12 hour clock am/pm setting.

In Linux (and UNIX, too, IIRC), the OS clock is always in UTC and just counts seconds. I.e., in the OS it does not keep timezone, AM/PM, or anything else.

So I am not sure what setting of what time parameter you refer to.

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