Re: Change servers timezone to UTC (was: Bugzilla will be DOWN Sat 9 April 17.00-20.00 UTC)



On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:58 +0000, DANIELLLANO wrote:
> Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> > > Now that you are doing this big change, it's the time to change this
> > > servers and others timezone to UTC (you know not every gnome developer
> > > or user lives in US East Coast)
> > 
> > The servers are located in the eastern US time zone. I think it is fair that their local
> > time can be EST/DST.
> 
> But the default timezone should be set up to the one that is
> understood by the users of the machine.
> 
> The default users of that machine are from all around the globe.
> So it's fair for it to be UTC.
> 
> Most people get mad guessing that server timezone.

$ ssh window.gnome.org
[hadess window hadess]$ date
Fri Apr  8 11:20:20 EDT 2005
                    ^^^

It tells you the timezone... Where do you see the problem exactly? An
awful lot of people that aren't adding their voices to this dialogue
aren't in the EST timezone.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 


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