timezone setting

[David Curtis]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:21:18 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nik N wrote:
> > I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 server. Installer insisted I specify a
> > geographic location; and gave me no possibility to chose UTC (formerly
> > "Greenwich mean time") as the time zone.
> >
> > We require that the server runs on UTC time. Where/what must be
> > changed to accomplish this?
> > TIA
> >
> > Nik N.
> >
> > 	Well we used to call it Grenich Mean Time. So just set the time to London England about and it will be right.

No, the UK uses BST (same as DST) in the summer, UTC/UCT, as a time zone does not change at all. This will screw up anything on the server that is time based, like cron, system logging etc.

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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>