Re: OT - Updates system clock

["Andrew Smith" <rhml2 k1k2 com>]

John Haxby said:
> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:02, John Haxby wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hat's FTP server in North Carolina.   However, the UK servers are +0100
>>>and Red Hat's is +0600, but because there's no mention of timezone, you
>>>can get confused.   But not much :-)
>>>
>>>
>
>>>The time zone at Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh, NC is EST5EDT, which
>>>is currently -0400 , not +0600.  I'm not sure for certain that
>>>updates.redhat.com is located there, however; in the past this has been
>>>co-located in New York.  (But New York would also be -0400.)
>>>
>>>--Jeremy
>>>
>>>
> Oops.  Forgot which way the Earth turns :-)  Considering that I've
> worked with people all around the world, you think I'd be able to get it
> right now.   BTW, did you know that there's an EST which is +1000 (I
> think it's ten hours).   Short timezone names are wonderfully ambiguous
> things.
>
> jch

Regarding +1000
Yep - check my mail header ... :-)
EST +1000 is Eastern Standard Time in Australia
when daylight savings is off (In my case = NSW)

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