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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months 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-up1·6 months 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-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoBest I’ve seen is a process scheduled on UK local time (including hour changes) running on a server that maintains Eastern local (including hour changes) but the process logs in EST ( and does not move with the hour)
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.
Best I’ve seen is a process scheduled on UK local time (including hour changes) running on a server that maintains Eastern local (including hour changes) but the process logs in EST ( and does not move with the hour)