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I don't think the article points this out, but another strong point in favor of using UTC (or anyways some timezone that (by _definition_) doesn't have DST) is
by philsnow 10y ago
I don't think the article points this out, but another strong point in favor of using UTC (or anyways some timezone that (by _definition_) doesn't have DST) is that then you won't have discontinuities in your monitoring timeseries. It's just lovely when you have two datapoints for "cpu usage at 1:30am", similarly it's just lovely when your alerts fire because there's a 1h gap in your timeseries when the clocks jump forward.
- markbnj 10y agoThe OP sort of touched on this with the point about "some jobs going missing" at the transition points. It's roughly the same issue I guess. Anyway will certainly join in the chant of UTC, UTC, UTC. Not long ago I had to manage some boxes at different colo datacenters where I had some on pacific time, some on central. It's a huge pain figuring out when things actually happened.