Log Files Rolled Over According to GMT, Not Local Time Zone

ID: Q193612

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Log files roll over at midnight Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than at midnight according to the local time zone.

CAUSE

Microsoft Internet Information Server follows the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification of rolling over the log at midnight GMT.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or the individual software update. For information on obtaining the latest service pack, please go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ServicePacks/

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

For information on obtaining the individual software update, contact Microsoft Product Support Services. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/overview/overview.asp

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194699 Extended Log File Format Always in GMT

In Service Pack 4, the behavior was changed so that Log files roll over at midnight according to the local time zone when metabase property ID 4015 is set to 1 using MetaEdit (shipped with the IIS Resource Kit) for each concerned Web site.

You can use the following command to add this metabase key:

mdutil.exe SET -svc w3svc -i 1 -utype UT_SERVER -dtype DWORD -attrib INHERIT -prop 4015 -value 1

Where -svc is the name of the service (for FTP, the service would be MSFTPSVC) and -i is set to the number of the Web site where you want to set the logging parameter.

Additional query words: rolled over new daily day mid-night midnite mid-nite
12am 12:00 a.m.

Keywords : NT4SP4Fea
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug