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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 years agoStandardising on EST is fine; it’s just UTC plus a constant. If they flipped between EST and EDT, now that’d be insane.
minus-squarearc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoYes as long as the rules are known, but it’s really just better to do things sanely and leave no margin of doubt.
minus-squareloutr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYep, 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.
Standardising on EST is fine; it’s just UTC plus a constant. If they flipped between EST and EDT, now that’d be insane.
Yes as long as the rules are known, but it’s really just better to do things sanely and leave no margin of doubt.
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.