> The issue I've never heard anybody talk about is the *local* timestamps > that applications running on *nix use. It seems unlikely that all > applications on all *nix platforms use UTC for important stuff like > timestamping transactions. (I'm in particular talking about application > timestamps since I presume the DBMSes are smarter than that.) Does anybody > worry about what their applications running on *nix do when the time drops > back an hour? That's the other argument we get for taking down the > systems--nobody is comfortable with what might possibly happen in some > piece of code out there.
So we stop breathing for an hour between 2AM and 2AM. :-S Good question, Scott. But again, it is an application level thing. Even e-mail includes the zone info for clarification. I don't worry about it because most of those things which affect me personally are UTC stamped, not local. (And I usually sleep, though hopefully still breathing, between 2 and 2.) When I awake, and local zone info is applied to the UTC stamps, I can read the times with sanity. Amazing how much time impacts all areas of our life. > Scott Chapman > One opposed to IPLing during time change That makes two of us now, and counting.
