Re: Timezones

Tony Sanders (sanders@BSDI.COM)
Wed, 9 Feb 1994 19:50:15 --100


> Clearly we cannot make a decision of weather everybody wants
> localtime or GMT. I'll make localtime default, and provide a
> -gmt option to allow times in GMT. Everyone should be happy
> with that. If a given statistics collecter requires a certain
> timezone then use that one.
That's reasonable.

> But I do need to know exactly how the timezone info should appear
> in log file (if it is necessary):
I believe it must be: +/-NNNN (e.g., -0600).
This is the only hope for being able to make sense of the timezone info.

--sanders