David J Taylor wrote:
Interesting - it's a problem which Windows doesn't have.
Windows doesn't use or store UTC so its timezone support is purely
cosmetic (hence the well known bug where the timestamps of all the files
on the system shift +/- 1 hour during DST boundaries).
Unix has the ability for each process/user to operate within their own
You either have the ability for each user (indeed each process) to
have its own timezone. OTOH 99% of services really don't care - they
operate on UTC. The for the most part the timezone is a user level
artefact that affects the shell.
It's simply a different way of looking at it - a single user centric vs.
a multi user centric.
Tony
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