Re: sendmail has a different time than what the system has , how come ?

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 09/25/05 

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:35:01 GMT

In article <HdoZe.1593$9E2.282@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
E Arredondo <henry@vegena.net> wrote:
>It's 7.27pm Sat 24th, if I send a test mail to root , it shows the time 7+
>hours!! ?
>
>/# date
>Sat Sep 24 19:21:24 PDT 2005
>/# mail
>
>>From root Sun Sep 25 02:25:14 2005
>From: root@atksco.vegena.net (Superuser)
>To: root

>Is sendmail using the GST ? How can I tell it to use PDT ?

You really don't want to have the real time of files or sendmail
set to anything other than GST.

The reason is that if you set your time to local, and you modify
a file and send it to another machine, then the file you send could
look older than it is when the file is on the other machine.

But by setting all the machines to GMT/UST/ZULU, and then using the
system to show the local time, the file will have the same
identical time stamp anywhere in the world, and will display the
local time modification no matter where you read it.

[Did I make that clear?]

What is your local time zone set to?

This is important once you start moving files across time zones and
need to make sure that older files don't replace newer files. 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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