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He is wrong about date/time setting. Most computers have automatic time sync, and consistent time stamps are important for many business purposes. Giving end us
by Duff 15y ago
He is wrong about date/time setting. Most computers have automatic time sync, and consistent time stamps are important for many business purposes. Giving end users the ability to manipulate time can cause significant issues.
Is it overkill for Linus's kids? Yes. But OpenSUSE wasn't put together for his kids.
- alextgordon 15y agoI think you may have misread. > I first spent weeks arguing on a bugzilla that the security policy of requiring the root password for changing the timezone The time zone is a completely presentational setting, something that users can be expected to want to change every so often. And it has no relation to timestamps.
- beatle 15y agoChanging time zones can fuck up a server application.
- batista 15y agoNo, the server application should have it's own timezone setting, like almost any serious server has, and/or use UTC time. And a distro must not assume you're using it for server applications, when you install a personal installation on your laptop.
- beatle 15y agodon't tell me. tell the linux developers who created the server application.
- Wilya 15y agoTime zone setting can (and should) be a user-specific setting. Since a server application most likely isn't running as a the same user as the "real" logged-in user, there's no reason anything bad would happen.
- mbell 15y agoWhat on earth are you doing using time zones in a server application? Time zone is purely presentation, you should be storing and calculating everything in UTC and only converting to time zone for presentation to a user based on that user's time zone (either via a user defined setting for your application or based on the current time zone setting of a user's system). You should never, ever, ever use the server's time zone to determine presentation to a user (or for anything really).
- batista 15y agoHe is wrong about date/time setting. Most computers have automatic time sync, and consistent time stamps are important for many business purposes. Giving end users the ability to manipulate time can cause significant issues. On a laptop? A seriously doubt it. Make the bloody distro learn to differentiate between a server and a personal installation, and change the settings accordingly.