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

[Dr Scofield]

Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> With the err... um... inevitable future event when the LL grid opens the
> doors to full interoperability, and given that their large customer base
> is accustomed to using "SLT" (California time) and all the scripts that
> may assume SLT, shouldn't we weigh that option over UTC or GMT or CUT or
> whatever it's called these days?

no. not at all. i'd like to have my regions running in CET (GMT +1) --- so,
actually, i'd like to see everything run on UTC internally and have the region
display whatever timezone its owner wants to use. for me this has a lot to do
with respecting different cultures. while i kind of like california (well, parts
of it anyhow), i'm also quite at home in good old europe ;-)


> 
> On a side note, regions running in virtual machines may have less
> control over the system clocks than regions running in a regular
> machine. I'd like to suggest that region times could be configured in
> OpenSim.ini and/or set by a central server using ntp or a similar protocol.

do we really want to drag NTP into OpenSim? i can see the point, yes --- i can
also see the point for delegating that to the underlying OS. also, if the
internal time format were UTC we'd be able to tell the drift...

	cheers,
	DrS/dirk

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