Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>> The timestamps st_last_event_ts (origin) and st_last_received_ts
>> (subscriber) are taken on different servers. If you play around with
>> the clocks of them you will find also settings where sl_status
>> reports them to be in the future.
>
>
> Hrmmm, for this sort of thing, might it not be smarter to have slon
> record based on GMT?  That is what the problem was, that server was
> recording based on GMT while the rest were AST ...

It uses timestamp with timezone, which means that it'll be *consistent*.

It is a "recommended practice" to use UTC/GMT
<http://linuxfinances.info/info/requirements.html>; as with security
issues, how YOU choose to configure things is YOUR choice; some
approaches may not turn out so well, as you see...