[Zope3-dev] Re: Formatting of Created/Modified times

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Steve Alexander wrote
> 
> > People run servers with the clock set to non-UTC? Wacky... how do
> > you handle logging getting doubled up on Daylight savings switch-over?
> 
> I think the idea is that the server's clock is set to UTC, but the 
> server is configured to know that it is in a particular timezone, and 
> thus has a local time that it is appropriate for applications to present 
> to users.

Nah. My approach is that the servers are _always_ set to UTC, and UTC
alone. If you want to deliver timestamps with a timezone, ask the user
what timezone they're in, and have the application show the localised
time. The timezone of the server is almost entirely irrelevant - why 
should your users care if it's in a colocation facility in, say, Chicago?

Anthony 
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