[AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC

[Mark Andrews]

In message <0138EB3E-F387-4698-8CEE-880C22801236 at ianh.net.au>, Ian Henderson wr
ites:
> On 21/11/2012, at 10:07 AM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Having had to deal with a number of timezone changes in recent years (and i
> n SA, there is also the problem of the 1/2 hour increment timezone, sometimes
>  not supported on equipment), I'm getting tempted to start advocating using U
> TC as the timezone as well. 
> 
> Yep. Totally +1 for UTC. The biggest problem isn't conversion, thats just an 
> annoyance. Daylight Savings date changes are the killer. Some systems support
>  them easily, some systems require vendor patches which may not be available 
> in time, etc.
> 
> Time Equality! UTC for all! Inconvenience everyone equally! ;)

I doubt the tip of West Africa have much use for daylight savings so
it is not quite "Inconvenience everyone equally".

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