It would be great if the times on the http://status.linode.com/ page were in UTC. I wager everyone knows their offset to UTC yet I bet few people outside of wherever uses "EDT" and "EST" know what their offsets are.

That sounds like a great suggestion. However we don't want to make things hard for those who just do not know how to work with UTC time.
I'd rather that if your suggestion was to be put into place, that Linode could have something much like the timezone box (where at least in that case for screen-reader users) Linode puts what the timezone should be. Not all will know offsets, you know. Some of us folks love to use Windows machines, ando nly work with local time, not UTC time.
But that's that, just a thought.
Nice suggestion, indeed.

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Or a simpler solution have it say XYZ minutes/hours/days ago.

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Which makes it terribly easy to figure out when problems actually happened. I shouldn't need to do math to figure out the date of a problem.

That would be US/Eastern in either DST or not. The vast majority of linode's customers are in the US and are plenty used to dealing with Eastern time, moreso than would know their UTC offset.

Is it really that hard to look up your timezone offset from EDT?

Plus there's 9 bazillion time convertors on the web for those mentally challenged folks.

It wouldn't be difficult to just show all times in the user's configured time zone.

This information is available to any Javascript code.

Without Javascript it could fall back to UTC.

I wrote an app that did that once and it wasn't tricky. Javascript = more convenience. No javascript = still works.

Show me a *nix admin who can't figure out their UTC offset and I'll show you, well someone who probably shouldn't be a *nix admin.

This has really nothing to do with what we can and cannot do, but more so about convenience.

I can tell you instantly that I'm 1 hour behind Eastern in Chicago. I have to think about it for a little longer to decided if I'm 5 or 6 behind UTC.

Linode has datacenters in Europe too and for us (and for non-USA clients) is more convenient time in UTC than EST or EDT.

By the way last status [*] is in UTC. Thanks Linode!

[*] http://status.linode.com/2011/05/networ ... -2011.html

Hi everyone. I suppose the five datacenters help out a lot in general with Linode.com in terms of the variuos timezones? Interesting discussion for sure.
But I think we have all the discussion we need on this topic.
I think that we should perhaps just accept the UTC stuff.
After all, what about the timezone converters someone else pointed out earlier?
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