> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Samuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: Max
> Cc: e-smith devinfo
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Corrupted [messages] Log Files
>
>
[SNIP]
> Look carefully at the dates. One set appears to be 9 1/2 hours ahead
> of the other set. Your timezone is 9 1/2 hours ahead of GMT (according
> to your mail headers). So some systems are logging in local time and
> others are logging in GMT. mystery solved (we don't control which
> timestamps are used by the various applications).
I've observed this on many flavors of *nix. Some log entries are made in
UDT/GMT, and others are made with respect to the timezone. This usually
depends upon the application writing the log. Some respect TZ and some do
not, and daemon and cron tasks are especially suspect, so don't assume that
just because TZ is set correctly that log entries will also be "correct".
