We have several hundred servers just in the dev & qa environment. They are all set to UTC, but we had to update them to ensure time calculations are correct when using US and Canadian time zones.
The changes are very easy to implement. On RedHat there are only a few glibc RPMs and one tzdata RPM. After you reboot, things are golden. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Fox Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:10 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] if system is on UTC... 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=DEVDE V _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ The information in this electronic mail message is sender's business Confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. Travelport Inc. is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
