On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 4:42 PM Mike Hammett <na...@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 :) ) > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ________________________________ > From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:16:59 PM > Subject: Re: NTP for ASBRs? > > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:12 PM Andy Smith <a...@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 >