Website timezone

[serenacat 83]

Did a search for "timezone" in Forums, but surprised not already a topic.

The "News and Announcement" summary pages has:

"Immediate, emergency maintenance on all servers

Started by Staff, Yesterday, 12:08 PM"

When I log in and display the page it says:

"Started by Staff, Yesterday, 11:08 PM"

When I read the notice, it mentions:

"Upgrade is starting at 13.10 CET" as if about to happen"

So I am in the Australia/NSW/Summer UTC+11 timezone wondering what is when there is where ?;-)

Perhaps it would be better for a global website to just use UTC, and note it explicitly, "Z" is a short convention, using 24 hour clock.

Many VPN users are unlikely to be scared off by a bit of techo-geek-ish, and can convert UTC to their own local time.

 

 

 

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

I did a quick conversion for you. It's CET +10 hours for you if you're in AEDT.

[me.moo@posteo.me 80]

I had no idea what CET was! but I do now. I never noticed any disruption but at least we knew what was going on, sort of.