Hi all,

My Linode is currently offline, and for the first time since joining a number of years ago I had to find the Linode status page. http://status.linode.com looks good, except I can't figure out whether the latest post is related to my outage or not.

The latest update says it was posted at "1:00am (EST)", which is my local timezone and it means the update was posted 15 hours ago. Finding it odd that a US provider would have their outages listed in an Australian timezone, I looked around and it turns out that EST can mean two things. Either UTC+10 or UTC-5.

So as a request for non-US customers, any chance you could use a more descriptive timezone in each update, or even better, post a UTC time as well for those of us who frequently calculate from UTC? Something like "1:00am (06:00 UTC)" would be perfect!

FYI it's EST eastern standard time (GMT-5)

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yes, because an american company will be posting in australian timezones . . . .

Um...



He knows to expect a USA timezone from a USA based company.

But someone who lives in Australia who reads EST will default to assuming that it refers to the timezone they are familiar with.

So the logic seems to point towards adding some sort of UTC-relative time, perhaps in addition to the current clock, so as to prevent the possibility of confusion.

I can see the confusion. Almost all the times in my Linode Manager except for the backup slot time are in Australian EST. The backup slot time clearly says "GMT-5" to differentiate.

If it had only said "EST" I'd have no way of knowing it was not the Australian EST like all the other times in there.