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Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric



On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Schulze wrote:
> This won't change if the motd would say it's UTC-0500, nor if it would say
> PDT, so why all this?  If such a warning does affect us, we need to check

It is far harder to remember all the timezone names, probably.  Do you know
from the top of your head what is BST (or BRST as we often use it here?)

> the local time and our own time.  The cronjobs are in local time anyway,

Which is annoying as well, but we have to cope with that :-)

> That's why when-webwml and when-dinstall exist partially, but that's
> another story, of course.

Indeed...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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