[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1955) Logs should use UTC timestamps

["Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1955:
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An old ticket with a random bump but it caught the random fact part of my brain. Quoting from the linked UTC wikipedia page:

"For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community."

And:

"For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small. Greenwich Mean Time is the legal standard in Britain during the winter, and this notation is familiar to and used by the population.[20]"

And if you google it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gmt%20vs%20utc

"There is no time difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time"

I'm not even sure how we pull GMT from anywhere but my guess is that its probably actually UTC due to NTP updates.

> Logs should use UTC timestamps
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1955
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1955
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
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> We currently log GMT while the rest of the world uses UTC (IIRC).
> This ticket is to figure out if that’s actually true and if it is, what we can do to transition.



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