[zeugma]

Unless the systems he's using have a particular reason to make use of local time, the clocks on Linux systems running control processes and whatnot should be using UTC. IMO, any production system should use UTC. It'll be a pain to change the programs that deal with user-space time, but it shouldn't be that bad for most production applications.

[Indy Pendance]

They have so much specialized stuff, custom programs they've wrote to fit the processors, etc. I don't know the details, I just know he said it's going to be a huge PITA if this is passed. I just skim the edge of this stuff. I'm an engineer, but programming and EE are not my fields.