From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 17:09:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29881 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29796 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17932; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805290008.RAA17932@implode.root.com> To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incorrect FTP Time In-reply-to: Your message of "28 May 1998 07:58:00 CDT." <85iumqa6xz.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:08:48 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Bryant Martin writes: >> I am running a FreeBSD server, and, although the system time is set to >> the correct time, incoming and outgoing FTP transactions are post-timed >> by four hours. We can find no apparent cause for this. Has anyone >> there seen this on another system, and, if so, can I get a suggestion on >> how to correct it? >> >> Thank you very much, >> Bryant Martin >> >> Commonwealth/Martin >> 1700 Venable Street >> Richmond, VA 23223-6308 > >Considering that you're on the east coast of the US, you're exactly 4 >hours behind UTC. So your FTP server is running on UTC, for some >reason. Perhaps someone else on the list can address the reasons for >that and whether it's really harmful. There is no /etc/locatime file in the anonymous FTP chroot area, so the times default to GMT. This is probably a good thing because you generally want the external view of times to be consistent, and daylight savings time conflicts with this goal. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message