Re: NTP for ASBRs?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 4:42 PM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
> Many systems have less than ideal separation of collection, storage, viewing, export, etc. timezones. I prefer to 
> view in local time. I may wish to export in another. Storage in UTC to facilitate all of this makes sense. 
> Normalizing input timezones would be nice.
>
> A boy can only dream...
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike "Dreamer of Dreams" Hammett

There I fixed it for ya! :)
(I agree, btw, that this sort of thing would be nice :) and some folk
can implement that today even :) )

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> From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
> To: "nanog list" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:16:59 PM
> Subject: Re: NTP for ASBRs?
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> 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