Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: the local time and our own time. The cronjobs are in local time anyway, Which is annoying as well, but we have to cope with that :-) We could set the system timezone to GMT. hint, hint. yours,

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:14:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, do you expect him to answer

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, do you expect him to answer with a

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. Oh come on! If you ask

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street for the current time, do you expect him to answer with a note that it's Hong Kong time instead of local time? What other time than local would make sense when not stated differently? You expect me to know where all

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: You expect me to know where all of our machines are hosted? I'm the SPI Treasurer and I don't know that. Maybe Mako Hill knows. No, I only expect you to be able to type date on both the remote and the local machine and

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: You expect me to know where all of our machines are hosted? I'm the SPI Treasurer and I don't know that. Maybe Mako Hill knows. No, I only expect you to be able to type date on

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: This won't change if the motd would say it's UTC-0500, nor if it would say PDT, so why all this? If such a warning does affect us, we need to check It is far harder to remember all the timezone names, probably. Do you know from the top of your head

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:49:07PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It is far harder to remember all the timezone names, probably. Do you know from the top of your head what is BST (or BRST as we often use it here?) Surely everyone knows that that's British Summer Time? -- You

admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. -- G. Branden Robinson| Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux |

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:18:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30 I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add the timezone identifier. I'm pretty sure it's local. That's probably aimed at