On Fr Juni 29 2007, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
because not everybody knows what UTC/GMT is, and using it alone will
just
cause further confusion.. if, however, one can see that UTC is a few hours
off of US/Eastern, things might go better. :)
I do not know, what EDT is, either. But I know the offset of my local time to
UTC.
at the moment it sounds like the outage notification is being
generated by
hand, so listing the two different time zones will take a little extra
work.. however, if the process is automated, it will be trivial to make a
Maybe it is enough to mention the offset of EDT to UTC, so everyone in EDT can
see what he has to calculate.
please.. if this issue causes the notifications to *not* be sent,
leave it
the way it is.. I'd rather get the notifications and have to do math to
convert to my local time than not get them at all because there is no
agreement on which time zone(s) should be used.
Even with UTC I still have to convert the time to CEST, but UTC is imho a fair
common timezone.
Regards,
Till