After some searching I found out that alerts and spcollects are always displayed in GMT.  " The system date on the array is always in GMT and cannot be changed by a customer. The date that is displayed to the client through the Navisphere Manager UI or CLI is based on the perspective of the computer that issues the command.  For example, if you execute the navicli getlog -10 command from Boston in the Eastern Standard Time (EST) zone in the United States and another person executes the same command from Los Angeles in the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone on the same array, the timestamp that displays on the command prompt is the local time for each party - EST for you and  PST for the other person. The time zone of the array is irrelevant because the time is stored in GMT.  The confusion with timestamps comes into play when the array itself generates a log file.  For example, the spcollect command actually executes several navicli commands on the array itself. For this reason, all the files generated from spcollect are in GMT.  One way to avoid this is to create a batch program that contains all the commands executed by spcollect and then run the batch program from a local host. This will create files with timestamps in the local time zone."  from EMC Knowledge Base  110591
Hello,  is there a possibility to adjust the time stamp in an alert mail on the VNX5300 (Unified)?  I have got the following problem. The time stamps in alert mails are two hours off. It looks like that time stamo in the mail is GMT. Local Time here ist GMT+1 + summertime offset. I checked time on controlstation, all data movers and both SPs. They have small differences (less than a minute) an look good.  [nasadmin[NAME] ~]$ server_date ALL server_2 : Tue Mar 27 13:17:15 CEST 2012 server_3 : Tue Mar 27 13:17:55 CEST 2012  [nasadmin[NAME] ~]$ /nas/sbin/naviseccli -User sysadmin -Password XXXXXXX -Scope 0 -h XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX getsptime Time on SP A: 03/27/12 13:18:34 Time on SP B: 03/27/12 13:18:37  [nasadmin[NAME] ~]$ date Tue Mar 27 13:17:31 CEST 2012  When I take a look in the SP Event logs (GUI) they have the right time stamps, but time stamp in the alert mail itself is two hours off.  Event Log looks like this (right time): [IMAGE]  E-Mail Alert looks like this (wrong time):  Time Stamp 03/27/12 10:36:06 (GMT) Event Number 712d841a Severity Error Host SPB Storage Array XXXXXXXXXX SP N/A Device N/A Description Internal Information Only. Could not complete operation Relocate 0xB00001590 allocate slice failed because 0xe12d8709.  00000400 03002c00 d3040000 1a842de1 1a842de1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 712d841a   Is it possible to fix it? Robert
Alert mail (block) time stamps differ from SP event log