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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Standardising on EST is fine; it's just UTC plus a constant. If they flipped between EST and EDT, now that'd be insane.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes as long as the rules are known, but it's really just better to do things sanely and leave no margin of doubt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yep, case in point flipping between EST and EDT may be "insane" but that's the default for systemd-timesyncd. So now you have to be 100% certain that it's disabled on your servers, and on the remote hosts interacting with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Best I've seen is a process scheduled on UK local time (including hour changes) running on a server that maintains Eastern local (including hour changes) but the process logs in EST ( and does not move with the hour)