October 05, 2003
Zoned in

I just changed the time zone on my west-coast based server to eastern time..


It was really as a convenience to some other people not myself.. but dang it, it just feels so.. wrong..

Posted October 05, 2003 10:26 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On October 5, 2003 11:33 PM Jeremy Zawodny added:

Heh.

All my east cost servers run on Pacific time. :-)

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On October 6, 2003 12:11 PM ccm added:

Use GMT. Then everybody will be equally unahppy.

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On October 7, 2003 12:26 PM Dan Isaacs added:

anything that makes you confront the arbitrary nature of time is unsettling.

And as one of Jeremy's users, I often lament the timstamps on my email. :)

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On October 8, 2003 03:09 PM matt added:

Why not just have the users set the proper TZ env var?

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Kasia states how she just changed the timezone on her west coast server to eastern time. With servers in Asia, Australia, LA, San Antonion, New York, Toronto, London, and Prague I can feel the pain. It seems like nomatter what...
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