Re: Multiple time zones 1 server?

From: John Winters (john_at_linuxemporium.co.uk)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: 28 Jul 2003 10:14:13 +0100

In article <3f2470d8$0$95050$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
graham Dinning <gdinning@resmaster.com> wrote:
>Hi people,
> I have an interesting conundrum. We run as a small ISP for clients as a
>side business.
>We have a single server that does everything running RH7.2. it runs DNS,
>mail, web, webmail, java, tomcat, database etc etc.
> The boss sent an email yesterday asking id we could use GMT for our
>clients overseas and stay local time for our clients in oz.
>This is a valid enough request.
>The people in england want to see their reports etc in their time and the
>clients in oz want the same.
>If I ask the question of people I know I get "Use UTC and everone can just
>cope".

The normal way of working is that the box uses GMT/UTC internally and
then date-times are presented to users in the format they expect. (Bear
in mind that this is purely a presentation issue.)

What sort of applications are your users running to generate these
reports? Can they not just get different TZ settings as they log in?

John 

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