Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:01:16 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11 Message-ID: <3A3A4C03-83CC-4343-B1DA-DFFD7EE22D68@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com> References: <0AFEEDC5-5838-4721-9309-E743EFF5C0B0@techally.com> <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com>
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On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:55 AM, DAve wrote: > Since we are in Indiana we just had to convert all our servers to > DST last summer. It was a chore because we have everything from > FreeBSD 6.1 to Solaris Sparc 10s. I am seriously considering > switching all of our NOCs to GMT and calling it a done deal. I am > not convinced that the DST rules will not change again and playing > catch up with politicians is not a good use of my techs time. I find myself in strong agreement with this position. > I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their > servers on GMT? Not all of them, no-- but most of them, especially anything which is running a database or doing logfile processes, I want to have them working in GMT. Something like a mail server or fileserver, it's perhaps better to keep things in the local timezone to avoid confusing users with timestamps that are not as expected... -- -Chuck
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