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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:28:52 JST nixCraft 🐧

   which time zone should I use?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:28:54 JST clacke

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     @nixCraft All else being equal: Obviously UTC. As the poster proclaims.
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     Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:45:48 JST Urzl

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     @nixCraft OMG yes, I've been fighting a losing battle against "company standard time" at work.

     We have employees literally around the world trying to comply with and work around central time obligations. Meanwhile we're trying to pin down timelines on an error but we're not sure in which timezones their desktops are recording the timestamps.

     Some offices set their hardware clocks to local and adjust their desktop display to central. Some set their hardware clocks to central. It's insanity.

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     Christop3her (cisene@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:45:50 JST Christop3her

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     @nixCraft UTC for all processing, storage .. localized with TZ when displayed to users/human.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:45:50 JST clacke

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     • Ken Tindell

     @kentindell @nixCraft They all can, unless you're using TAI.

     And your software generally doesn't want you using TAI.

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     Ken Tindell (kentindell@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 20:45:51 JST Ken Tindell

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     @nixCraft UTC can have 61 seconds in a minute.