Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

[Loren M. Lang]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:11:19AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Loren M. Lang
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:29 AM
> > To: Ian Smith
> > Cc: Loren M. Lang; Pat Maddox; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours
> >
> 
> > little bit less reliable using local to UTC unless you are not affected
> > by any daylight savings changes like Arizona in the US or, I'm
> > sure, many
> > other places around the world.
> >
> 
> There's no excuse for a mailserver to not be synced to a NTP source.

I agree, I run ntp on every single computer I own, but I was talking in
general.  But for a server, I'd expect them to use UTC anyways.  The
only advantage I see to local time is support for other oses or reading
the time in the bios, neither of which will probably be a big deal on a
server.  And for desktop users, they may not bother running ntp or even
be on a network.

> 
> Ted

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