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I 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 Th
by alextgordon 15y ago
I 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).