Re: IST for system, local time for people

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:30 +0530, François Patte wrote:
> hawat thufir 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

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