From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 19:01:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AEF170C87 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D3B13C467 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1LJ1HjH019654; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 8304530090; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:01:17 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807125-a0302bb0000007df-80-45dc96fd6ed7 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 7364E3004B; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:01:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com> References: <0AFEEDC5-5838-4721-9309-E743EFF5C0B0@techally.com> <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3A3A4C03-83CC-4343-B1DA-DFFD7EE22D68@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:01:16 -0800 To: DAve X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:01:19 -0000 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