On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:18:22PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > 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.
Chiming briefly into this to add to the thread that is common to have systems set on UTC even in large networks that span across multiple timezones and having local times wouldn't help the NOC at all (given that pretty much all works on UTC, ie. maintenance announcements). Cheers, Paolo _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
