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Re:Set server timezones to UTC by mwfj on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:09PM (#12107299)
That doesn't say anything about the servers timezones. SMTP is a service on top of those.
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Re:Set server timezones to UTC by Symbiote on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:16PM (#12107321)
It seems unlikely that the SMTP process would run in a timezone different to the server. What benefit would that give?
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Re:Set server timezones to UTC by mwfj on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:55PM (#12107456)
They would operate a virtual machine-type layer on top of their actual linux machines. In the upper layer they could be doing whatever..
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