NTP for ASBRs?

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Thu May 9 19:16:59 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:12 PM Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > UTC is nice
> > EST is nice
> > PDT is nice..
> >
> > pick one, deal with the eccentricities of that decision without
> > foisting your religion on the rest of me. :)
>
> Yes and no. Anything non-UTC can cause issues when working with
> other organisations.

"deal with the eccentricities of that decision without
foisting your religion on the rest of me"

I clearly mistyped: "me" at the end there with "us"... Your point is
squarely on: Hey, you do you... when you talk to me be prepared to
normalize my TZ and yours.
(which may mean;: send in UTC store in ElboniaStandardTime"

> More than once I've received logs or incident notifications from
> suppliers without a time zone stated at all. I've then asked the
> time zone only to be told "It's PST" when in fact the real answer
> was PDT as the supplier was currently in DST. Others shouldn't have
> to work this hard, epseically with DST dates being a matter of local
> legislation, and one way of helping that to happen from the first
> line support up is to use UTC.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy



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