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Do I still need to set my server's time zone to UTC?

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OS is Raspberry Pi OS 12. It looks like timedatectl shows the date both in UTC and my local timezone. Since it looks like the OS keeps track of UTC explicitly, is there any reason to not set the timezone to where the server is physically located? In the past I've always seen the advice "always use UTC for servers" but since timedatectl seems to keep track of UTC, perhaps this advice is now outdated. I did find this post also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/741976/should-i-still-use-utc-for-all-my-servers but didn't see timedatectl mentioned.
Asked by cat pants (167 rep)
Dec 31, 2024, 01:59 AM
Last activity: Dec 31, 2024, 03:45 AM