On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:40:32PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Converting a time structure from text format that has timezone markup is
> practically impossible. See reference links for more information. This
> leads to situation where multiple utmpdump(1) conversions from binary to
> text and back make timestamps to shift amount of timezone offset to UTC-0.
>
> The easiest way to make multiple conversions to work without timeshifts is
> to always use UTC-0 timezone. Downside of this approach is that the textual
> format is less human readable than local timestamps would be.
Makes sense, but it would be nice to have big fat note in the man
page.
Karel
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