I thought GMT was the critical time to watch.

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I'm glad to hear the power is still on in NZ and Australia but I thought GMT was the read deal-buster. (Or am I being blonde? lol)

LunaC

-- LunaC (LunaC@moon.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

There never seems to be a good answer on this, although I've been wondering for a year myself. On Unix systems (at a minimum), "system" time and "local" time can be set separately. My last Unix system had system=UTC and local=EST.

Here's hopin' folks more "in the know" chime-in...

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 31, 1999.


Most unixes (unices?) have the system clock set to UTC (GMT). Local times are derived from that via the TZ environment variable.

-- (foo@bar.com), December 31, 1999.

Yup, fun and laughter for those of us at GMT... :)

-- Servant (_@_._), December 31, 1999.

"Most unixes (unices?)"

Unics. A Unic has no balls...

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 31, 1999.


I was in direct contact with an engineer at Bonneville Power two weeks ago and he confirmed that power generation/distribution is set mostly to LOCAL time. There are a few exceptions where grids cross timezones, and one or the other is picked as the standard. I don't believe there are *any* grids running on UTC.

-- RPGman (tripix@olypen.com), December 31, 1999.


What luna was referring to are the embedded's or hard ware failures that we have to watch out for. And unfortunately it could be GMT or it could be a number of other times . It depends when the and where the chip was manufactured and whether or not it is date dependent.Sorry I couldn't be more sapecific; however, tghat is the name of this game isn't it.? We just don't really know and won't know for a couple of months to come exactly how far reaching the damage is. Believe me the worst damage will be if nothing or very little damage is seen to the power grid and immediate concerns because the general public will get into a mode of uncaring. The thing we will then have to worry about is a possible recession or depression.

-- Jaden (informed@noyb.com), December 31, 1999.

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