[Wikipedia-l] Timezone based on UTC? (was: New e-mail feature)

[Jimmy Wales]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 16:53, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
> > I wouldn't do that if the server is really in that timezone.
> > Servers have an actual location on earth and should run in
> > local time, I think.
> 
> Servers serve the whole world and should run in UTC. What the time zone at 
> the server's physical location is is irrelevant. Time zone change is 
> disruptive, and though it happens at 2:00 in local time, that is broad 
> daylight elsewhere on the globe.

Plus, end users can set the TZ environment variable so that they can
type 'date' and get a happy answer, local to them.

--Jimbo