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Re: Packages vs. files on mirrors



On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> > date -R is your FRIEND!
> 
> $ date -R
> Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:27:53 +0200
> 
> In what way does that help me to find out the difference (in time) between
> UTC and CST? Or between UTC and any other timezone, for that matter?
> 
> I really think mirror times should be stated in UTC and not in the local
> time for whatever timezone the mirror (or master) happens to be in.

+0200 is 2 hours more than UTC.  This fall after the time change (if your
timezone honors daylight savings time) it'll be +0100.

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