Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 2009-01-08 at 02:13 -0800, Ronald Marshall Kivel III wrote:

> From the command line..
>         $ date --date="10:00am MST"
> will tell you *in your local timezone* what time the server will be offline;
> and..

Two "buts".

 · One, you have to know what timezone "mountain time" is. I don't. Well, 
now I have been told.
 · Two, I can do the conversion from my local time to UTC and back in my 
head.
 · And three, UTC was created precisely as a time reference for the entire 
world, for the cases when you have to tell the time, without confussion, 
to people outside your own time zone. Even the acronym has a strange 
ordering that is neither English nor French, so that nobody can claim the 
acronym was made for their language.

Ie, the polite form is not to use local time.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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