Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:55:26 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours Message-ID: <20050303205526.GJ30896@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050302102908.GF30896@alzatex.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:11:19AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Loren M. Lang > > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:29 AM > > To: Ian Smith > > Cc: Loren M. Lang; Pat Maddox; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours > > > > > little bit less reliable using local to UTC unless you are not affected > > by any daylight savings changes like Arizona in the US or, I'm > > sure, many > > other places around the world. > > > > There's no excuse for a mailserver to not be synced to a NTP source. I agree, I run ntp on every single computer I own, but I was talking in general. But for a server, I'd expect them to use UTC anyways. The only advantage I see to local time is support for other oses or reading the time in the bios, neither of which will probably be a big deal on a server. And for desktop users, they may not bother running ntp or even be on a network. > > Ted -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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