On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:31:31PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Bear in mind that I was explaining my use of "all-UTC machine". > Were you to construct such a beast, I think the first thing you > might set, actively, is the RTC. You wouldn't just assume that > it was already set to UTC. > > What would be a better term for such a machine in the state described?
A non-networked machine with its default time zone set to UTC. The admin would need to keep setting the clock by hand as it drifts, but otherwise, this is not a special or unusual setup... if this were 1990. > Anyway, having followed these actions, someone could now write and > test scripts without worrying about timezones, and then find out that > they fail when someone in the real world runs them. A cynic might observe that nobody else in the world is ever going to run those scripts. But yeah, this is a hive of bugs being hatched. We've pointed out the obvious ones, and that's all we can do for now.
