On 2006-06-28 at 16:43 -0400, Jim Brett wrote: > Thanks, your response is greatly appreciated. Here's OS info: > > # uname -a > SunOS machine.company.com 5.8 Generic_117350-13 sun4u sparc > SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Edit /etc/TIMEZONE, zone information available in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/ $ man -s 4 timezone You may also want to look at /etc/defaults/cron, if you want to make cronjobs stick to GMT or somesuch. You'll probably need a reboot somewhere in there, and to make sure that you adjust the system clock to compensate for adjusting the zone information. A lot of time issues just go away if you keep system clocks automatically synchronised. ntpd helps here, which on Solaris 9 (don't know about 8, sorry) is in: SUNWntpr SUNWntpu (NTP = Network Time Protocol) That's the terse version, but should provide enough pointers for going on with. I'm only assuming that you're not already using NTP, but I suspect that it would've been difficult to keep a system clock outside GMT whilst using ntpd. Social benefit to using GMT with mail-servers, even outside the UK (full disclosure: I'm expat British, so perhaps biased) is that when it comes to reporting abuse and providing logs to correlate events, it's *really* useful to have a common timezone standard which everyone needs to be able to map to their local time easily, without needing to learn acronyms. Even better is when you can say, "Log timestamps are in GMT with time synchronised via NTP to high stratum, so we believe them to be accurate." -- "Everything has three factors: politics, money, and the right way to do it. In that order." -- Gary Donahue ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
