Re: Vote fairy runs away to be with the Tooth Fairy

Frankly speaking, I don't understand your explanation at all. Are you saying that the Perl Monks server clock is set to a local timezone? This would be quite weird, wouldn't it?

I'm not a professional UNIX sysadmin, but from what I know, server clocks should always be set to GMT. If you use a non-GMT time for cron jobs, web server log files etc., you'll get a lot of weird effects. Think of changing back to standard time -- all cron jobs during that time window would run twice, log files could have duplicate timestamps etc.

Maybe the gods can shed some light on the issue?

Update: FYI, I'm on upsilon.pair.com (being #13, one of the earliest pair web servers), and a quick TZ= date shows GMT (I set the timezone in the shell, that's why I need to clear TZ).

Comment on Re: Vote fairy runs away to be with the Tooth Fairy

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Vote fairy runs away to be with the Tooth Fairy by theorbtwo (Prior) on Apr 06, 2003 at 19:26 UTC
It is indeed strange, for all of the reasons you mentioned. Caused some headaches when we first moved to pair, but it's mostly good now. Shrug. Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).	[reply]
Re: Re: Vote fairy runs away to be with the Tooth Fairy by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2003 at 23:02 UTC
from what I know, server clocks should always be set to GMT. You are correct, however people don't always follow best practices.	[reply]