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Re: NTP for ASBRs?


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 15:16:59 -0400

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:12 PM Andy Smith <andy () strugglers net> wrote:

Hello,

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
UTC is nice
EST is nice
PDT is nice..

pick one, deal with the eccentricities of that decision without
foisting your religion on the rest of me. :)

Yes and no. Anything non-UTC can cause issues when working with
other organisations.

"deal with the eccentricities of that decision without
foisting your religion on the rest of me"

I clearly mistyped: "me" at the end there with "us"... Your point is
squarely on: Hey, you do you... when you talk to me be prepared to
normalize my TZ and yours.
(which may mean;: send in UTC store in ElboniaStandardTime"

More than once I've received logs or incident notifications from
suppliers without a time zone stated at all. I've then asked the
time zone only to be told "It's PST" when in fact the real answer
was PDT as the supplier was currently in DST. Others shouldn't have
to work this hard, epseically with DST dates being a matter of local
legislation, and one way of helping that to happen from the first
line support up is to use UTC.

Cheers,
Andy


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