On 1/8/2009 at 1:40 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote: -----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.
It's always interesting how long such a thread can grow in this list, even though there is basically nothing more to say. We could also use Internet Time (BMT). After all that one was created for not being affected by timezones and/or DST. So in short: I vote for BMT Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org