> I’ll use Central European Summer Time (CEST) for time stamps, as the majority of Datadog’s engineering team is in this timezone. I’m also indicating US Easter

> I’ll use Central European Summer Time (CEST) for time stamps, as the majority of Datadog’s engineering team is in this timezone. I’m also indicating US Eastern time (EST) for reference. I can convert from UTC to my timezone (TZ) in my head, since logs are usually UTC. I know other engineers can do this, too. What I cannot do is convert from a random TZ to my TZ without looking it up. Clearly, the author knew this, which is why EST was added for an American audience. Note the Datadog post-mortem is UTC [0], but the status page isn't [1]; even the EU one is ET [2]. So why are time stamps not being in UTC a thing? Reasons I can think of: * Status pages and post-mortems are not for engineers, but for management? * Certain US-based companies use ET (i.e. EST or EDT) or PT (i.e. PST or PDT), and everybody else has cargo-culted it. [0] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/2023-03-08-multiregion-infrastructure-connectivity-issue/ https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/2023-03-08-multiregion-infras... [1] https://status.datadoghq.com/history https://status.datadoghq.com/history [2] https://status.datadoghq.eu/history https://status.datadoghq.eu/history