IST for system, local time for people
Matt Davey
mcdavey at mrao.cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 23 10:16:51 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:30 +0530, François Patte wrote:
> hawat.thufir at gmail.com a écrit :
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Tim wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> Is your local time supposed to be different than IST?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Generally, yes. Sometimes it might be the same, if your local time is
> > GMT (Grenwich Mean Time).
> >
> >
> > IST ?=? International Standard Time
>
> IST= Indian Standard Time
And "Irish Summer Time". Hence why you set timezones using locations
like "Europe/Dublin" "Asia/Calcutta" rather than acronym :)
Matt
Matt Davey Numeric stability isn't that important when you're guessing.
mcdavey at mrao.cam.ac.uk
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