[Opensim-dev] Timezones, UTC, GMT & PST

[Charles Krinke]

There are some issues coming up about timezones and grids. It seems that events, scripts, web interfaces and other things are affected by timezones. It gets a bit more complicated when one considers that our mysql logic uses local time with calls that involve NOW().

Some folks feel that all the time on all the sims on all the grids should be set to UTC, and that is a reasonable approach.

Others feel that a UGAIM should set the timezone for a grid and tell the sims connected to that UGAIM what timezone they are in and what time it is at the time of grid registration with a UGAIM, and that is also a reasonable approach.

There is more. But, rather then just declaring what I might feel to be the answer, I would like to seek a consensus that is best for OpenSim and any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated to this "timely" subject.

Charles
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