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Florida UNIX Systems Administrator here. I will have a love/hate relationship with this law if it passes. Will cause all kinds of headaches for administration o
by SlowBro 9y ago
Florida UNIX Systems Administrator here. I will have a love/hate relationship with this law if it passes. Will cause all kinds of headaches for administration of our servers, which are spread throughout the world. None of the systems I admin are in Florida, but rules will nonetheless have to be updated on OSes and apps.
But hey, at least I won't have to change the clock on my stove :-/ Best to implement nationwide instead of piecemeal like this. Perhaps though the rest of the States will follow Florida's lead. That's where I'm hopeful.
I wonder if having the entire world on exactly the same time is a better option? No zones, no daylight savings. 12pm is 12pm in London, Singapore, and South Africa, year-round. It would be odd going to bed at 2pm but we'd get used to it.
I'd also suggest decimal time but that's been tried and failed. Probably universal time would, as well.
- DrScump 9y agoWouldn't it just be a locale with TZ == GMT-4?
- SlowBro 9y agoRight but it’s all the system patching and configuration that must be done. And I still carry an old Palm Pilot (Treo 700p). No idea how that’s going to be kept current as it’s not on any network. Maybe time to finally kick it, but more likely will just manually update the time twice a year :-) Perhaps I can just put it on one of the Indiana municipal zones...