[CentOS] UTC vs local time

Simon Jolle

urandomdev at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 10:20:44 UTC 2007


Hi list

I always configure my systems to use our local time (in my case
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich) and disable UTC.

What are the differences between UTC and local time? What are their
respective advantages and disadvantages?

When to use UTC?

cheers
Simon

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