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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 17:08:48 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Incorrect FTP Time 
Message-ID:  <199805290008.RAA17932@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 May 1998 07:58:00 CDT." <85iumqa6xz.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> 

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>Bryant Martin <bryant@cms-mpc.com> writes:
>> I am running a FreeBSD server, and, although the system time is set to
>> the correct time, incoming and outgoing FTP transactions are post-timed
>> by four hours.  We can find no apparent cause for this.  Has anyone
>> there seen this on another system, and, if so, can I get a suggestion on
>> how to correct it?
>> 
>> Thank you very much,
>> Bryant Martin
>> 
>> Commonwealth/Martin
>> 1700 Venable Street
>> Richmond, VA 23223-6308
>
>Considering that you're on the east coast of the US, you're exactly 4
>hours behind UTC.  So your FTP server is running on UTC, for some
>reason.  Perhaps someone else on the list can address the reasons for
>that and whether it's really harmful.

   There is no /etc/locatime file in the anonymous FTP chroot area, so the
times default to GMT. This is probably a good thing because you generally
want the external view of times to be consistent, and daylight savings time
conflicts with this goal.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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