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Jeroen Massar
jeroen at unfix.org
Thu Jun 7 14:17:47 CEST 2007
Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote: > Jeroen Massar wrote: [..] >> As Max pointed out, unless dates in the RIPE db all have to be in UTC, >> in his time zone it was already that date as his clock is 2 hours ahead >> of GMT which is 3 hours ahead of UTC at the moment. > > Another option would be to omit the date/time in the changed: and > have the DB software add in what it thinks is the "appropriate" $now. Would be fine with me. Especially as 'backdated' updates can't then be made anymore. The changed line then really reflects exactly that: when it was changed. >> As the RIPE region also covers the regions into Israel and not to forget >> parts of Siberia, those people are about 6-8 hours ahead of the time in >> Amsterdam. > > Which, imho, is a very good reason to operate all those things on UTC. > Full stop. This is the easiest of course: clearly state it in the documentation on the site that it has to be UTC. And when rejecting it, a "times have to be UTC" notice might be appreciated. >> Or is it a standard to always use UTC timestamps? Or is it GMT+1? > > And DST or not? :-/ Which is why I mentioned UTC, which afaik doesn't have that crud ;) Greets, Jeroen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 311 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20070607/96d5b4bb/attachment.sig>
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