Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Rob OpenSuSE" <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/8 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.

> 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"

That's great, but it really does just show that someone writing a
service interruption notice, shouldn't have much trouble posting a
time in UTC/GMT/Zulu to help an international audience.  Probably most
ppl, face conversions for Pacific or East Coast time, much more
frequently so that would be a friendlier parochial option.

Why make a whole load of ppl, type a command, rather than someone
who's aim is to inform the reader?
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