Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Ronald Marshall Kivel III <ron@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

It's a real shame that developers have years of programming code that almost 
no one uses.

From the command line..
        $ date --date="10:00am MST"
will tell you *in your local timezone* what time the server will be offline; 
and..
        $ date --date="2:00pm MST" will tell you what time the sever will be 
back 
online.  Need that will cake, coffee or tea?  The date command also 
understands strings like "2009-01-10 10:00:00MST" and "2009-01-10 
10:00:00-0700".   It really is a useful command, is include in just about 
every variety of *nix since the dawn of time.  Great for creating general 
mayhem, or even just seeing what time something is happening somewhere else.  

Just my $.02

Sorry, normally I just keep quite about things like this .. It's easier but 
today you've caught me in rare form.  :) 

Ron Kivel
-It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

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