System Clock and Hardware Clock

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:36:05PM -0700, chris@uhduh.com wrote:
> With regards to an internet server, what should you set your system=20
> clock (local time) and hardware clock (bios or RTC) to?
>=20
>   I'm currently working on a web site which has logins and records login=
=20
> times in the db. I feel both the db and internet server should be set to=
=20
> UTC since that would be void of timezones and would be the most accurate.
>=20
> Any comments would be appreciated!
>=20
> Chris

Both clocks should be set to UTC. Then just configure your timezone with
the TZ variable or make a symlink to it as the /etc/localtime file.

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
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