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Ted Lemon writes:
>*snort*
>
>Maybe you'd prefer to run Win95 or Windows NT, both of which store the
>system time in the local time zone. Very technologically advanced.
>Every time the time changes, everything breaks.
Absolutely. This is the only sane way to handle the kind of
strategy needed for this particular situation. I may be totally wrong
on this next statement, but UNIX is one of the first operating systems
if not the first to truly understand the value of keeping time in some
universal method and deriving local time by applying rules to the
value shown in the hardware counter which should be the exact same number
all over the world at any given time.
The rationale for the need to do this goes back to 1883 or so
when GMT was adopted by international treaty to handle mixups in
communication, transportation, and billing .
If one is confused about the conversion factor and is lucky
enough to be running UNIX, just give the -u parameter as in
date -u
to see GMT or UTC which are essentially the same value.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group
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