Re: timezones & date() breakage

From: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:35:58 +0000
Subject: Re: timezones & date() breakage
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > LC>>> UTC. Do you have your watch in UTC and your wall clock in your home in > LC>>> UTC? > LC>> > LC>>ACTUALLY - all the server clocks are set to GMT - that way I know who ever > LC>>enters data, the timestamp is always correct, what ever their local time ;) > > I am starting to get an impression that you reply to me without reading > what I wrote. Once more: when I need to display current time for this > machine, I don't need UTC. But you do need UTC somewhere, as *all* date code (OS, applications) use UTC timestamps to calculate the current time. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org

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