Re: Is Daylight Savings enabled ?

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

What if you are running a server and some users log in from across a time
zone boundary? Will they see the time where the server is located? I
suppose so.

The server is set to GMT. Timezones are just a convenience for users,
although the server generally provides a default timezone for users who
don't want to specify their own.

Users who are in a different timezone are perfectly welcome to set a TZ
environment variable to display dates in whatever timezone they happen to
be in:

$ date
Tue Apr 4 08:31:04 PDT 2006
$ TZ=MST7MDT date
Tue Apr 4 09:31:13 MDT 2006
$ TZ=MST7 date
Tue Apr 4 08:31:51 MST 2006
$ TZ=US/Hawaii date
Tue Apr 4 05:31:21 HST 2006
$ TZ=US/East-Indiana date
Tue Apr 4 11:31:27 EDT 2006
$ TZ=US/Indiana-Starke date
Tue Apr 4 10:31:36 CDT 2006

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