On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
With timezone I have a more strong points:
1) System should use UTC.
Then you loose information. System time is already in UTC from the kernel, /etc/localtime provide information about the current timezone as well. I think people would find it surprising if we do something non-standard here.
2) Daemons should use UTC (logger, cron, ...)
The daemons know both UTC and the current localtime, so they should know themselves which one to use.
3) TZ should be set per user not system-wide.
I don't think it is a good idea to set the TZ as mentioned earlier, but it could be used in special cases if you know what you are doing I guess. Certainly not something to recommend as default though. Thanks for the feedback! Cheers, Tom