Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2013, Bill Davidsen sent:
> No Windows involved, just some data logging machinery which writes
> info in VFAT or ISO-9660 formats depending on the nmodel. But no
> daylight changes on the big boxes, I just have to make the data be
> local time for reports and comparison. The simple way is to run EST on
> the system which reads to data into Linux. Linux is a tad too smart
> here.

What about running them on GMT?  Let your data analyser convert GMT log
times to the timezone of your choice.  Other servers run that way (all
their logs are done in GMT).