Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-15 Thread Coy Hile
All of my personal gear (both the lab in the basement and various hosts dispersed around the world) uses UTC. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2013, at 12:18, "Nick Hilliard" wrote: > On 14/03/2013 16:35, Mike Hale wrote: >> Operationally, I prefer using the time zone that I'm located in. >> >

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Most large networks usually use UTC. It makes it easy to collaborate > network events across the whole network. Of course, as long as the network > is all set to the same TZ then you that shouldn't be a issue. Using UTC makes it much easier to coordinate with other parties though. Sander _

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Aaron
Most large networks usually use UTC. It makes it easy to collaborate network events across the whole network. Of course, as long as the network is all set to the same TZ then you that shouldn't be a issue. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Deny IP Any Any wrote: > my company is east-coast US, bu

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Rolf Hanßen
Hi, we try to use UTC as far as possible (to avoid summer/winter time confusion), no big problem imho. But that's POV of a European, we just need to add 1 or 2 hours, not subtract 6-9. ;). kind regards Rolf > my company is east-coast US, but now we're expanding West; for the first > time we'll h

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Bryan Socha
Pick whichever time zone makes it easiest for you. In our case we use est/edt because our ticketing system and most of the support staff is in this timezone and it makes it very easy for them to line up different logs, tickets and windows to know whats going on without waking people up. Bryan O

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 14/03/2013 16:35, Mike Hale wrote: > Operationally, I prefer using the time zone that I'm located in. > > Conceptually, UTC makes more sense and stops becoming annoying after a > while, especially if you put up a clock set to UTC in your cube. if you live in a region which natively uses UTC, i

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Devon True
On 14-Mar-13 11:18 AM, Deny IP Any Any wrote: > my company is east-coast US, but now we're expanding West; for the > first time we'll have routers/switches/etc in a different time zone. > > How does everyone else handle time zone settings on a network that > spans multiple time zones? We've discus

Re: [c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Mike Hale
Operationally, I prefer using the time zone that I'm located in. Conceptually, UTC makes more sense and stops becoming annoying after a while, especially if you put up a clock set to UTC in your cube. On Mar 14, 2013 8:31 AM, "Deny IP Any Any" wrote: > my company is east-coast US, but now we're

[c-nsp] timezone setting in networking gear; local, HQ, or UTC?

2013-03-14 Thread Deny IP Any Any
my company is east-coast US, but now we're expanding West; for the first time we'll have routers/switches/etc in a different time zone. How does everyone else handle time zone settings on a network that spans multiple time zones? We've discussed internally about the pros/cons of setting them to th