Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:59, David Wright wrote:
Am Samstag, 29. April 2006 22:41 schrieb Kevanf1:
It amazes me that the default location is the US yet SuSE is a European distro. It doesn't cause me a problem and neither do any of the other defaults as they are easily changed. It's just surprising. Agreed, surely the logical default would be GMT +/-0?
-- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Now that not a bad idea at all certainly make life a lot simpler .. :-)
It would be simpler for people who lived in that timezone, yes. I would think that it would be more instructive to (mostly new) users to use almost anything besides UTC +/-0, the reason being the math. Some people don't know or might not remember whether they need to add or subtract from UTC to get their own timezone. So using a default of UTC-5 and noting that this is NYC would give a clue to people in, say, Indiana, that their timezone is UTC-6 (well, depending upon where in IN they live). Personally, I don't care which timezone is the default-- it would make the most sense to use the timezone where the most Linux users are (which would be fun to know)-- but I'd be fine with UTC+6. I just think that UTC-0 would be the least instructive choice for users. -- As a statistic, the US Unemployment Rate is like saying that no one is drowning because the flood waters have risen only five inches today.