[Nottingham] Time zone confusion

[Peter Woods]

ARRRRRRRRGH! Please, please DON'T shout!

If you set your hardware clock to UT  / UTC, Universal 
Co-ordinated<french> time: you have a 50/50 chance of being right for 
any particular distro.

Pete

Ashley wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> First the simple questions...
>
> What is the best time zone to set on a Linux server in the UK?  It 
> runs Samba and Apache services for the local network.
>
> How do I see what time zone is in use on Slackware Linux system?
>
> How do I change time zones on a Slackware Linux system?  I think one 
> machine is on GMT and the other on BST
>
> If I change the time zone will it cause any problems?
>
> On an ext2 file system are the dates stored in local time or UTC?  Is 
> the time zone also stored?
>
> If I move a hard disk with ext2 partitions between machines with 
> different time zones will the file times affected?
>
> Do ssh and rsync resolve time zone differences?
>
> Does Samba have any timezone settings?
>
>
> Background to my problem...
>
> I've just replaced a disk in my file server with a larger one.  Having 
> transfered all the files (photographs) to the new disk and fitted I 
> noticed that the file times displayed in Window Explorer are one hour 
> out for all files (regardless if they were created winter or summer).  
> This is apparant because I prefix the file names created by the camera 
> with a date/time string ( i.e. yyyymmddhhmmss) during the transfer 
> from the camera card (the script gets the date/time from the file 
> timestamp on the CF card).  The photographs are transfered from the 
> camera card via a PCMCIA adaptor in the Linux server ( i.e. not via 
> samba).  I do not recall this descrepency before I replaced the disk, 
> but it is possiable I just did not notice it before.  The file times 
> displayed on the file server appear to be correct so I hope it's just 
> a Samba configuration problem.  The new disk was fitted in a different 
> machine and the file transfer was done initially via scp and then 
> updated using rsync.  Both disks have ext2 file systems.  A new file 
> created via samba has the correct time in windows explorer, but ls -l 
> on the file server displays it one hour previous (the date command on 
> the file server returns GMT).  My plan is to first check my fileserver 
> is on the correct time zone and that samba is configured correctly.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ashley
>
>
>
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