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

[DANIELLLANO <DANIELLLANO terra es>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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
>                     ^^^

That the problem: that's not your timezone!
(that's not a good example because I don't even have access to that
server)
If the time/date were in UTC it would be easier to convert to your local
timezone.

When I go to:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
I don't even know in what timezone time/dates are.
If I don't see the timezone, it's supposed to be UTC but it's not.

> It tells you the timezone... Where do you see the problem exactly?

The problem is that EST is not my timezone so using UTC is easier.