Re: [pmacct-discussion] timestamp rounding bug

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 08/04/2009 04:35:31 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Is any real-world system set to UTC? I'm certainly not going to run 
> my
> 
> firewall (where I run pmacct currently) on UTC. All my logs would be 
> screwed up and much harder to interpret.

Setting the system clock to UTC is traditional in Unix, AFAIK.
The obvious reason being that it makes it easy to compare
times across systems.  It's up to the logging application 
to decide whether to output UTC, localtime without time 
zones, localtime with time zones etc.  Likewise other
programs that produce times for human consumption.

The Internet (e.g. rfc2822 and, iirc, rfc5424) tends
to solve the "human consumption" problem by logging in localtime but
including an offset from utc in the timestamp.


Karl <k...@meme.com>
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                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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