Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Robert Kaiser <KaiRo@xxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 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 wouldn't say it's a MUST to use UTC, the Mozilla project uses Pacific 
Time for everything, for example, partly for historical reasons 
(Netscape was based in California), partly because the largest Mozilla 
offices are still in that timezone, even though it's global project.

We saw though that it helps a lot to specify both such a conventional 
timezone and UTC, and perhaps even some time conversion URL for the 
beginning of the timeframe, e.g. 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=8&month=1&year=2009&hour=12&min=25&sec=0&p1=0 
(for right now when I'm writing this).

Robert Kaiser
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