[thelist] IIS logging local time vs GMT

[Ken Schaefer]

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From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com>
Subject: RE: [thelist] IIS logging local time vs GMT


: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Ken Schaefer
: > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:46 AM
: >
: > If you want to log using local time you can not use W3C Extended logging
:
: Ken,
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: Side-effects be damned, could you not change the time zone on the server
to
: GMT to accomplish this?
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: Joshua Olson
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That's an interesting idea. If you did set the timezone to be GMT, then it
would log local time.

One implication: If your server is part of a domain that uses Kerberos
Authentication (either a Windows Domain, or any other MIT implementation)
you will break authentication unless you set the entire domain/realm to GMT
(so not just the webserver, but every client machine, and every other
server).

If your a company that has ISO policies, or similar auditing requirements
(banks, audit companies, military contractors, hospitals), I don't think
this is feasible.

If you have locations in multiple timezones, I think you'll have a few
problems with things like replication that need to determine
cost-of-replication type data.

There may be other implications as well.

Cheers
Ken