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why are your servers not UTC? sheesh.

• riceart 4y ago
  All systems in common use, use UTC for the underlying representation. The concept of setting the time zone is a high level library thing already and all these systems, their standard time functions simply provide a time since some fixed epoch. Ie see C time(), gettimeofday, clock_gettime, GetSystemTime. They’re all “UTC” based. If a piece of server software is going out of its way to deal with local time APIs and blows up because of it - well it either legitimately needs to deal in local time, or it’s so poorly designed that simply keeping the system locale set to UTC isn’t somehow a magic fix. That’s just an adhoc assumption.
• tiernano 4y ago
  We had a requirement from a Government agency to store the date/time in the system's local time (Ireland, in our case). All certs issued had to have the time it was issued, and they had to be local.
  • wkdneidbwf 4y ago
    haha, amazing! i’ll put my pitchfork away :)
  • snvzz 4y ago
    I hope a complaint has been filed about this policy.