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. If it would be given in UTC only the author would have to do the first calculation so it perfectly makes sense to use UTC IMHO. Given that everyone should know his relative difference to UTC offhand while I don't know MST to UTC without some investigation.
Just my 2 ct, Wolfgang
It's a real shame that developers have years of programming code that almost no one uses. 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" will tell you what time the sever will be back online. Need that will cake, coffee or tea? The date command also understands strings like "2009-01-10 10:00:00MST" and "2009-01-10 10:00:00-0700". It really is a useful command, is include in just about every variety of *nix since the dawn of time. Great for creating general mayhem, or even just seeing what time something is happening somewhere else. Just my $.02 Sorry, normally I just keep quite about things like this .. It's easier but today you've caught me in rare form. :) Ron Kivel -It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org