jonathan wrote: > > For Linux / Unix servers, it is kind of tempting to just change system > time to UTC, forget about future modifications to DST, and get used to > making sense of the logs in UTC time. However, things like cron jobs > and BackupPC blackout times are now going to be time shifted as if UTC > is now local time e.g. cron job that used to run at 2am EST is now > running at 2am UTC or 9pm EST or 10pm EDT.
why would any of this be easier than letting the system track DST itself? even on my ancient RH7.2-based server, updating the zoneinfo files took me all of 5 minutes. and for anything more modern, a semi-automatic upgrade (i.e. "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade") took care of it quite a long time ago without me even noticing. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 14.9 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
