Well, it's the time of year for time zone questions. I have a machine in Indiana, US, which has a system clock set to UT. I use xntp to keep it in sync.
I look forward to the summer when Illinois and Indiana are on the same time (CDT and EST respectively) because I don't have to remember to add an hour when I go to IU - not that it's that hard, but life is complicated enough. My linux boxes are all using Debian and the timezone package. Timezone allows me to set the zone to US/Eastern, but Indiana isn't really in US/Eastern since they don't use daylight savings time. After EST went to EDT over the weekend, times on the machine in Indiana are 1 hour ahead of the rest of the Hoosiers. I suppose I can fix this by setting TZ=EST5 in the start up scripts. Is there a "best" place to do this? Or a way to do it more cleanly with the timezone package? I suspect that machines in Arizona have similar problems. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuclear Physics Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PGP public key available on request