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Time Zone Change ONTAP 9

jimb32
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Our AFF points to 2 NTP servers in the US Central time zone. The time zone setting for the AFF is also in US/Central. We're sending syslog to a cloud service and it's preferred to have it in UTC so we're being asked to change the time zone on the AFF. Should I have any concerns about doing this? I know cron jobs go off the system time so I can adjust for that. I assume changing the time zone will just change the displayed system time but kerberos should remain in sync due to the NTP servers. Can anyone confirm?  

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TMACMD
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As long as the universal times are close, you should be fine regardless of timezone. 
you can check your Netapp from the command line: date -u

 that should give you time in UTC. 

 

Timezones are for humans. UTC is for machines. 

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TMACMD
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As long as the universal times are close, you should be fine regardless of timezone. 
you can check your Netapp from the command line: date -u

 that should give you time in UTC. 

 

Timezones are for humans. UTC is for machines. 

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