From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 07:00:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F68F37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6032243F3F for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:00:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3DE0DJP016213; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:00:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E996D6C.2070405@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:00:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tuco References: <200304130203.27417.tuco.email@gte.net> In-Reply-To: <200304130203.27417.tuco.email@gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of GMT in BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:00:15 -0000 tuco wrote: > I see GMT being used in FreeBSD and wonder why an old astronomical time scale > that has been obsolete for a long time now as the basis for the World's civil > time is still used? Stop with the long diatribe on GMT/UTC and kindly point out where you are getting the idea that GMT is being used over UTC. To my knowledge, FreeBSD's timekeeping is completely based on UTC (I specifically recall that you are asked whether your BIOS keeps time in UTC during the initial sysinstall) If you know of specific binaries, man pages, or other parts of FreeBSD that are incorrectly referring to or using GMT, please file a detailed PR using the send-pr command, as I'm sure that FreeBSD is supposed to be using UTC. Thank you for your concern on this matter, but I'm not even sure where you got the idea that FreeBSD was using GMT. I use NTP on my machines and I've never had any trouble with GMT/UTC ... as far as I can tell, FreeBSD uses UTC just as NTP does. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com