Thats our way as well. But our reasoning is mostly due to international sevice and everything is tighed up to GMT. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:32:57 -0500, Pakhutkin, Maxim (Max) <maxim.pakhutkin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a possibly stupid question. Wouldn't using UTC for the = > OS/Hardware clock eliminate the head-ache? I always choose UTC when = > installing Linux on machines, but I don't have much experience with = > Unix, so this may not even be possible. I also don't know if Oracle = > converts UTC to local time zone before handling the values returned from = > the system call. So my question may be completely misguided. But I would = > appreciate receiving any and all enlightenment on the issue. Thanks. > > Max -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l