Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:34:49 -0400 From: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to force GMT/UTC Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905102548.00b62358@mail.johnturner.com>
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Hello - If I have servers (all FreeBSD) in many different timezones, how do I force all of them to consider their system time to be GMT/UTC? For administration and reporting purposes, it's much easier for me to have all my servers running GMT/UTC than having to worry about converting back and forth between GMT/UTC and whatever local time is for that particular server. My apologies if this seems like a FAQ...I searched the archives, and every response I read was "use tzsetup". Well, I've read the man page for tzsetup, and have been through it numerous times, and still I have machines that are all set to local time. These machines do not send mail or interact with the outside world in any visible manner...they are all for internal use. They do "talk" amongst themselves, and it would be very nice if, as far as they were concerned, they were all in the same timezone. Basically, when I run 'date' on every machine, I want to see "UTC" and not some timezone designation. If I use tzsetup, it asks me if the machines' time is local time. Whether I say Yes or No, I am forced to choose a timezone (none of which are either GMT or UTC). My goal is to have every machine think its timezone is GMT/UTC, and use ntpd to keep them all in sync with GMT/UTC. Is this possible? From everything I've tried, it doesn't seem like it is, but I'm guessing I've either missed something very obvious or I am trying to do something ridiculous. Comments either way would be appreciated. BTW, all the machines are 4.0-RELEASE. Thanks in advance. - John Turner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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