On Tue, March 6, 2007 11:42 am, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> >> Why would anyone (besides perhaps an observatory) do that? The system >> was >> developed so you wouldn't have to do that. That's just nuts! > > that = set the system (OS) timezone to UTC > > Because you may have data centers flung out in far reaches of the world. > You may have admin teams in vastly different geographical regions. > > The system was designed so that each user could set their own timezone > to reflect what worked best for them (presumably, the timezone that they > themselves are in). > > It might not be what you would do, but I find that it makes a whole lot > of sense. > > Then again, I hate the whole idea of timezones to begin with. > > -john
As you can see from my reply, I thought you meant having the machines display GMT, which made no sense since there is such a nifty system in *nix for doing what you said and I do. So now I surmise your remark referred to makers of brain dead OSs. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
