Re: Timezones

Tony Sanders <sanders@BSDI.COM>

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Subject: Re: Timezones 
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> 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