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Message #00707
Re: OpenStack Compute API 1.1 ‹ server actions
On Feb 16, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Michael Mayo wrote:
> I like this idea, but I would suggest going with a unix timestamp in GMT instead of /2011/xx/xx/etc.
Whether you use a timestamp or YYYYMM... format, *always* use GMT. We all know how much fun it is when someone in Europe sends a request to reboot their server at 2am, and the data center in Chicago does just that, except that it's now 8am for the requester.
-- Ed Leafe
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