To put an end to this thread. HARC 5.0 has TZ configurable for cosmetic reasons.. And I do believe that Jeff is correct here. The TIMESTAMP should always be in GMT. The receiver is responsible for correcting for local display. -M |-----Original Message----- |From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Mcadams |Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:14 PM |To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |Subject: Re: (usr-tc) TimeZone Reality Check for ARC's | | |Thus spake Jeff Binkley |>-> >Not completely a cosmetic thing since I sometimes use it to track |>-> >problems. It's just easier to be able to check the time in one's own |>-> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |>-> Like I said...its a cosmetic thing. ;) | |>-> >time zone rather than to keep mentally subtracting 5. I'm lazy. 8-) | |>Not exactly. If you are using this with an enterprise management system |>which aggregates SNMP traps, there could be a problem with some of the |>devices reporting local time and some reporting GMT time. The fact that |>most network devices allow for a timezone offset would lend credence |>to this. | |Well, I would hope that in SNMP traps, the data would be in GMT and not |in a human-readable, and unbelievably-hard-to-reliably-parse format. |Converting and display the SNMP trap timestamp information in a human |readable format and timezone of the viewer should be the job of the |enterprise management system, certainly not of the SNMP agent. |-- |Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com |Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 |IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 | |- | To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" | with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. | For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send | "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. | - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.