Apache time

[Chris Bier]

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Peter Amisano wrote:
| sorry, forgot to get into my server...here is the reply for ls -al
| /etc/localtime for my server:
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| -rw-r--r--    5 root     root         1279 Oct  2 13:12 /etc/localtime
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| I am not sure what this means.
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| the date command shows:
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| Sat Jan  3 23:35:14 CST 2004
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| which is correct.

date shows the software time, hwclock shows the hardware time.
The hardware time is usually set to GMT, and software to the local
timezone.  In Linux, the software clock is set from the hardware clock
on boot.  If you dual boot, the other OS might be resetting the hardware
clock to the local timezone.  You can see where this might cause problems.
~  If you have both set to the local timezone, some programs might try to
adjust themselves to GMT.

Chris
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