Mikeserv Support Forum

I just noticed today that my time setting in the forum was an hour off because it was still set to Pacific time, I didn't notice before because Arizona doesn't observe DST and so up until Nov 2nd it was the same as Pacific DST. So I went in and updated it. I had to let the California hosp I'm working for know that my schedule would appear to shift twice a year by an hour. It was slightly confusing at times this week since their applications display Pacific time. There's an upcoming meeting later this month at 9AM, but since that's 10AM my time I won't have to get up that much earlier than usual

I wish we could do away with DST, though when some places with the same longitude don't observe it, it's more chaotic. We've got Newfoundland/Labrador time that changes it by half an hour while everything around them is Atlantic time. It's 4:26 PM there right now (2:56 PM here)

What I hate is email timestamps, it tends to be the sender's local time. Look at this garbage, for example:

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:07:03 +1100

Server time (from headers)
Delivery-date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:07:46 -0500

(some seconds in queue and probably not exact synchronization between systems)