-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkll9FoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UkQACffDF1gm8LGMSSDBU1fbUKE0mY mGwAoIgzRBwfiWBPLGizEtFL5pKqRqGQ =NA27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----