IST for system, local time for people

[hawat.thufir at gmail.com]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Tim wrote:
[...]
> Is your local time supposed to be different than IST?
[...]

Generally, yes.  Sometimes it might be the same, if your local time is GMT 
(Grenwich Mean Time).


IST ?=? International Standard Time

It's "good" for computers because:

1.)  no daylight savings, the clock never moves
2.)  your clock and my clock, if they both use IST, will have the same 
time regardless of where we are.
3.)  Good for traveling laptops, which move from one timezone to another.

It's similar to how the military uses zulu (GMT) to synchronize their 
operations, same concept, similar benefits.


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Thufir
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