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

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 09/26/05

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    Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:25:01 GMT

    In article <o4BZe.58$Fi3.18@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
    E Arredondo <henry@vegena.net> wrote:
    >
    >"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:InCxxv.J7A@wjv.com...
    >> 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.

    >My time zone is PDT right now, but somehow , sendmail and
    >cron are using a different time , when I reboot the system my
    >time changes to 17.22 and then I have to run */etc/ntpdate
    >207.126.98.204* to fix the time back to my real time. Is there
    >something wrong with my brand new system ? maybe a setting that I
    >forgot to set ?

    Then that means your hardware clock is set to LOCAL time - not
    to GMT/UTC. You change that in the BIOS.

    ># date
    >Sun Sep 25 10:22:13 PDT 2005 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<---------- 10:22AM
    ># echo hello | mail root
    ># mail
    >"/usr/spool/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
    >>N 1 root Sun Sep 25 17:22 12/380
    >v=Edit,h=Header List,l=Print,d=Delete,q=Quit,?=Help,<enter>=next> 1
    >>From henry Sun Sep 25 17:22:20 2005 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<----------- 17.22
    >!!!!!!!!!!
    >From: root@atksco.vegena.net (Superuser)
    >To: root

    Well that time is 9 hours off from UTC. PDT should only be 7. PST
    should be 8.

    So you've got something weird there. 

    -- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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