[c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

[Devon True]

On 14-Mar-13 11:18 AM, Deny IP Any Any wrote:
> my company is east-coast US, but now we're expanding West; for the
> first time we'll have routers/switches/etc in a different time zone.
> 
> How does everyone else handle time zone settings on a network that
> spans multiple time zones? We've discussed internally about the
> pros/cons of setting them to their local timezone, or to match the
> timezone of HQ, or to just set everything as UTC.

We use UTC since it makes correlating log events easier and if you are
dealing with an outside party, most people know their offset from UTC
versus their offset from MSK.

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Devon