On Fri, 2005-08-04 at 12:41 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > a) The server time really shouldn't occur in a lot of places, and > always occurs with a timezone indication. Yes, bugzilla mail > says "Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:13:01 -0400 (EDT)" but how > often do you look at the Date field in a bugzilla mail? Did you ever take a look at a bug report lately, let's say: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74096 that page is full of time statements, none of them lists the time zone. > > b) You'll have to do timezone conversion wherever you are, unless > you have your wall clock set to UTC. one conversion, with a standard fixed time zone. Much easier than a random time zone. Andreas PS: of course my watch does have a UTC dial. -- Andreas J. Guelzow, Professor & Coordinator Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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