On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Scott Silva wrote: >> Voila - instant UTC clock. Never need to worry about daylight >> savings again. >> >> Anybody can think of any problems with: >> - the procedure I described? >> - the simple fact of using the "true" UTC timezone? >> > System spikes caused by logrotation happening in the middle of the > workday? Not a real problem, but the first one I could think of. Solving that problem is as easy as adjusting the hour at which /usr/bin/run-parts is launched: $EDITOR /etc/crontab -- Paul "$EDITOR == vim" Heinlein