On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:36, John McCawley wrote:
> Earlier this week when I logged into my database, I just so happened to
> notice that the value for now() was six hours off of the time reported
> by the operating system when using the date command from the command
> line. How is this possible? I rebooted the server and the problem
> magically went away. I am quite certain that I didn't modify anything
> in the database that should cause this problem. It turns out that that
> the now() time has been off for some time, and resulted in quite a bit
> of corrupted data. What exactly should I do in the future to keep this
> from happening, or where should I look for clues?
Sounds like a time zone issue. I'd start looking there.
