Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:30:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours Message-ID: <175577797.20050302193016@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050302102908.GF30896@alzatex.com> References: <20050228113641.GG1672@alzatex.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1050301005340.12835A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <20050302102908.GF30896@alzatex.com>
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Loren M. Lang writes: > Well, I haven't looked into all the details of how FreeBSD does this, > but I gaurentee that there is a point where FreeBSD can crash and the > clock could be knocked off an hour which wouldn't happen if it's running > UTC. Traditionally, UNIX sets the real-time clock to UTC. There's no good reason to set it to anything else, unless you are running multiple boots with other operating systems that don't expect UTC in the RTC. Even then, you have to be careful. -- Anthony
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