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From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: log times in GMT, not local
Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:58:23 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida
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I had posted previously that our apache web server was having problems
with log times.  Now the problems has spread.  Basicly, log times are
being recorded in GMT, rather than local time.  But now it's affecting 
other logging mechanisms, like the maillog files.

Also, the problem has now become intermittent.  It switches back and 
forth from GMT to local and back.

I've written some C programs to check the times being returned by
functions like localtime().  These are reporting the correct 
local clock and the proper minutes offset from GMT.

Since it's affecting multiple subsystems that are not related, the
problem must be something wrong in FreeBSD.

Can any geniuses and/or members of the programming team point me to
a fix?