On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:36:15AM +0000, Personal (open) wrote:
On 19.02.2017 12:32, Sylvia wrote:
> I always wondered why times are setted on America/New York instead of
> UTC... Does anyone know?
> Cheers,Sylvia
>
Mainly with Fedora and Redhat being US Based, but as a reference EDT
( New York Time) is UTC -5 for six months of the year and UTC -4 (
this year's shifts will be Mar 12th ( back to UTC -4 ) and Nov 5th (
back to UTC -5)
Or to put it another way, most humans in general keep human time, not
UTC. Our group is non-technical in nature and there's not a
compelling reason to govern by UTC. There's a short span where clocks
differ in USA/EU due to DST. But either way a world clock will show
you the equivalent time in your zone.
Hint: in Workstation, you can add world clocks in the Clocks app, and
they'll show up on your GNOME Shell clock/calendar dropdown!
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