[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] 0.6 move and downtime

[Shaun McDonald]

On 20 Jan 2009, at 12:02, Brett Henderson wrote:

> Cool!  This is great news.  And only 10 months or so later than
> Frederik's initial estimate ;-)

Or 2 months early ;-)

>
> Is there a list of the minor tweaks being done to the db during the
> reload?  I couldn't see anything on the API 0.6 wiki page.  For  
> example:
> * Fixing of utf8 (double) encoding issues.

A full database reload will be done so that the utf8 problem is fixed.

>
> * Date Timezones.  Current time is in BST I believe, perhaps now is a
> good time to convert to UTC.

I have modified the rails setting, so that it will always use UTC  
instead for all times, rather than local time.

Shaun