Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:00:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force GMT/UTC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009060951340.274-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <20000905234426.D69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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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
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