[Freeipa-devel] timestamps

[John Dennis]

On 07/15/2009 11:58 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Dmitri Pal wrote:
> Uhmmm I think using *localized* local time has one crucial problem, you
> don't have a way to present what was the local time in other locales.

Simo is exactly correct, this is the essential problem, you can't 
convert the timestamp to another locale which can be very valuable when 
an organization has sites in multiple locales.

Also, don't look to Windows for best practices. Windows has a long 
history of screwing up time/date calculations.

> Conclusion:
>
> I think that UTC + displacement is perfectly fine

In the limited case of log timestamps I agree with Simo UTC + *numeric* 
displacement is fine. It's not adequate in other scenarios.


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