Robert <roberth at abbacomm.net> wrote: > hello > ya know, i have researched this several times over a coupla > sdecades and my brains have fallen out again... ;-> > so... all of you that are setting up mail and web servers > in the USA or other countries, are you clicking and turning > on the > system clock uses UTC > selection on a centos install?? > the reason i ask is i research this about every 3 to 5 > years and i never remember what i figured out or thought > about it... apologies > what is the wisdom and usage on the list please? > soooooooo help an old man of 40 out please? ;-) > thanks and kind regards! Basically the default of _every_ computing platform outside of Utah and Washington [state] has been set the RTC to UTC and offset in software/locale/user-space/etc... This has really been a key mindset difference between multiuser platforms and platforms that assume only one user is on the system, and it would only be used in one timezone. Especially today with portables -- your hardware RTC should _never_ change (except when the UTC time if off), and not as you merely move timezones. The OS should _only_ offset, never modify the RTC (again, except for when the UTC time is off). -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)