[AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC
Matthew Moyle-Croft
mmc at mmc.com.au
Fri Nov 23 14:42:38 EST 2012
On 22/11/2012, at 6:59 PM, David Hughes <David at Hughes.com.au> wrote:
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> On 23/11/2012, at 1:10 PM, Tony wrote:
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>> Even if you specify the timezone in your correspondence, lots of people tend to ignore it anyway and just assume local time to where they are (particularly Syd/Mel people during daylights savings - I'm in QLD)
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> Have had the same in the past. I had a prolonged disagreement with a client when we talked about maintenance windows using EST. His point was that the S was for Standard, and Qld was the odd one out (i.e. non-standard). So Standard was what Sydney and Melbourne were on.
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> That was a long and frustrating conversation.
Something Queensland something something something.
:-)
MMC
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> David
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