Re: OT - Updates system clock

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On 25 Jun 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:59, dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > When I went to the updates.redhat.com site to download the latest errata
> > updates this morning, I found that the timestamp for the ypserv-2.8-0.9E
> > files were at least three hours into the future. At about 08:30 CDT, the
> > timestamps on those files were showing June 25 11:17 with both gftp and an
> > ftp client in Xterm. (Time and zone settings at this end are correct.)
> > 
> 
> I would guess that updates.redhat.com would be set to the GMT time
> zone.  I don't know whether FTP is smart enough to determine that and
> convert to local time zone or not.  Hmm.

They are GMT.

I hav never seen an ftp client that displayed anything other than what is on
the server.

One other thing if you are worried about the files just check the gpg sig on
them.

HTH,

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