On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:12 PM Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > UTC is nice > > EST is nice > > PDT is nice.. > > > > pick one, deal with the eccentricities of that decision without > > foisting your religion on the rest of me. :) > > Yes and no. Anything non-UTC can cause issues when working with > other organisations.
"deal with the eccentricities of that decision without foisting your religion on the rest of me" I clearly mistyped: "me" at the end there with "us"... Your point is squarely on: Hey, you do you... when you talk to me be prepared to normalize my TZ and yours. (which may mean;: send in UTC store in ElboniaStandardTime" > More than once I've received logs or incident notifications from > suppliers without a time zone stated at all. I've then asked the > time zone only to be told "It's PST" when in fact the real answer > was PDT as the supplier was currently in DST. Others shouldn't have > to work this hard, epseically with DST dates being a matter of local > legislation, and one way of helping that to happen from the first > line support up is to use UTC. > > Cheers, > Andy
