Of course this annual discussion of daylight savings, and now time zones,
has always been one of my favourite gripes.
Working as I am in Asia, for a multi-national company, being involved in any
global conference call is always tricky. I keep suggesting that we should
all just book such calls using UTC, but the US based company prefers New
York time.
It has got to the stage where I am now suggesting that all our computers
just be set to UTC, with no local offset. That moves ALL handling of local
time to the applications which interface with people. Knowing that all
systems were on UTC it would make problem diagnosis of any log submitted so
much easier....no need to be concerned what the local time was where the log
was produced.
If the various military organisations around the world are capable of
running on UTC (Zulu), then similar sized commercial organisations can do
the same.
I see that Gil has made similar comments.
Aside: Singapore uses same time zone as China.....which is same as Perth,
Western Australia.
Jakarta, east of Singapore, is 1 hour behind Singapore...not what
you would expect.
Regards
Bruce Hewson
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