From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 1: 0:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA6A37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-209-164.netcologne.de [194.8.209.164]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21946; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:00:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8680Yw00650; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:00:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:00:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: John Turner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force GMT/UTC In-Reply-To: <20000905234426.D69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:34:49AM -0400, John Turner wrote: > > > > Hello - > > > > If I have servers (all FreeBSD) in many different timezones, how do I force > > all of them to consider their system time to be GMT/UTC? > > Make up your mind. Do you want Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or > Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)? > > I guess the few fractions of a second difference doesn't matter for > this application, so I guess we can pretend they are the same. ;) (Sarcasm aside :) it matters to me. Is there any chance of FreeBSD reflecting this? In /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera there seems to be 0.00 difference between GMT and UTC in both -STABLE and -CURRENT. I'm no zoneinfo expert, but I'm willing to work on a patch. Anyone know off hand where some good detailed docs are on the difference between GMT/UTC? -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message