On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:26:34AM -0600, Brian Hirt wrote:
> If it's known that slon has problems with time zones with daylight
> savings time, wouldn't it make sense to default it to UTC or at
> least give you a warning when it starts up?  I had no idea about
> this and I could see others being bit in the rump by this as well.

Well, it _is_ in the documentation.  I dimly recall that we attempted
to do something with the time zones in the past, but then people would
try to make the machines operate in different time zones, and that
broke in different and unpleasant ways.  Maybe I'm imagining that,
however.

Anyway, yes, all your machines need to be in the same time zone, and
one where the time doesn't occasionally whip around in insane ways.
It's generally a good idea to run in UTC for other reasons, too.  For
instance, your syslog has this problem as well.  If someone manages to
reboot the box in the one hour of "lost" time on Sunday, how will you
know what time it happened?

A

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