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Changing time zones can fuck up a server application.

• batista 15y ago
  No, 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 ago
    don't tell me. tell the linux developers who created the server application.
• Wilya 15y ago
  Time 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.
  • beatle 15y ago
    CAN and SHOULD. but it's NOT.
    • apenwarr 15y ago
      Try 'export TZ=my/timezone/name' sometime.
• mbell 15y ago
  What 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).