Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>]

Am Thursday 08 January 2009 11:13:04 schrieb Ronald Marshall Kivel III:
> > 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

Then we just have to guess that "mountain time" goes by the acronym MST
and all will be well. If I know that, I also know the offset.

        Regards
                Oliver
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