Hi, I am thrilled to see Restic 0.19.0 Released. Thanks to all the authors for your great work!
I updated my installation and saw this text below the list of snapshots:
Timestamps shown in CEST timezone
It’s about the “CEST” in this output. The time is shown as 2025-01-31 23:00:34 in the text output and as "backup_start":"2025-01-31T23:00:34.220633311+01:00" in the JSON output (restic snapshots <hash> --json). Both are (in a way) correct and mean 23:00:34 Central European Time (CET) or UTC+01:00 and not CEST (i.e. Central European Summer Time).
So the note about the timezone is only correct for the more recent timestamps (UTC+2:00). This kind of timezone name changes between standard and daylight saving time. What stays the same throughout the year is the IANA timezone. That key would be “Europe/Berlin” in my case. So I think, this note is more confusing than helpful.
- restic 0.19.0
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restic snapshots
PS: Funny that @fd0 mentioned time zones in the video Alex on FLOSS Weekly