Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
> On Thursday 08 January 2009 00:14:16 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2009-01-07 at 15:17 -0600, Bryen wrote:
> > > > Seriously, though: please specify time in UTC, it is universal.
> > > Mountain Time is MST, an actual time zone.  It is GMT -7/-6
> > The point still stands: time on an international community MUST be given
> > as UTC, not local.
>
> Feel free to report it in bugzilla ;)
>
> Thanks for the info, I'll change my announcement now before it goes out ;)

I agree with the UTC statement (while it might not be written law ;-)).
But having MST forces (almost) everyone to do two calculations: one to
UTC and one to his local timezone.
If it would be given in UTC only the author would have to do the first
calculation so it perfectly makes sense to use UTC IMHO.
Given that everyone should know his relative difference to UTC offhand
while I don't know MST to UTC without some investigation.

Just my 2 ct,
 Wolfgang
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