However notifications appear to come from Colorado with GMT dates - "Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:53:28 -0400 From: Red Hat Network Alert <rhn-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RHN Errata Alert: Updated bash packages fix several bugs To: bobgoodwin <bgoodwi3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Errors-to: rhn-bounce+2088107-2646333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-id: <200306232153.h5NLrS916406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" Don't know where the up2date server is located? Bob Goodwin On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:02, John Haxby wrote: > Nearly right. The times reported by FTP often don't have timezones > attached to them so if you're picking up a file from the US East Coast > and you're further west then it may well appear to be in the future. > Indeed, my copy of the ypserv RPM is dated "Jun 20 19:09" and the one on > as it the one on the UK mirror, ftp.mirror.ac.uk, and the one on Red > Hat's FTP server in North Carolina. However, the UK servers are +0100 > and Red Hat's is +0600, but because there's no mention of timezone, you > can get confused. But not much :-) > The time zone at Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh, NC is EST5EDT, which is currently -0400 , not +0600. I'm not sure for certain that updates.redhat.com is located there, however; in the past this has been co-located in New York. (But New York would also be -0400.) --Jerem
