Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:29:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: articles/cvsup-advance little question Message-ID: <20041029092915.GA1172@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <41811CD3.9030000@mac.com> References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <41811CD3.9030000@mac.com>
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On 2004-10-28 12:22, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > >I have the impression that our servers run now on UTC; if this is right > >shouldn't GMT be changed to UTC ? > > I thought that GMT and UTC are effectively the same thing...? Note that the zoneinfo data we have in FreeBSD is exactly the same for GMT and UTC (minus timezone name differences), as seen below: : orion:/tmp$ hd /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT > gmt.txt : orion:/tmp$ hd /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC > utc.txt : orion:/tmp$ diff -u gmt.txt utc.txt : --- gmt.txt Fri Oct 29 12:18:37 2004 : +++ utc.txt Fri Oct 29 12:18:48 2004 : @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ : 00000000 54 5a 69 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |TZif............| : 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 |................| : 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 |................| : -00000030 00 00 47 4d 54 00 00 00 |..GMT...| : +00000030 00 00 55 54 43 00 00 00 |..UTC...| : 00000038 : orion:/tmp$ - Giorgos
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