Not parent poster, but: It creates annoyance and frustration for the end user, it creates new sources of error (especially when the end-user has to do time-conversions) and provides no actual benefits in terms of system correctness.
So instead of your settings sometimes being wrong and easily-fixed with a few clicks, you want them to be almost always wrong? :P
Again, I don't understand what pain-point or use-case is motivating this "set your laptop OS to UTC" proposal.
... Well, not unless it's some workaround for flawed software running on that machine, perhaps made by developers that misunderstood the business-domain of time zones.
Not parent poster, but: It creates annoyance and frustration for the end user, it creates new sources of error (especially when the end-user has to do time-conversions) and provides no actual benefits in terms of system correctness.
What problem are you thinking it would solve?
> What problem are you thinking it would solve?
Traveling.
So instead of your settings sometimes being wrong and easily-fixed with a few clicks, you want them to be almost always wrong? :P
Again, I don't understand what pain-point or use-case is motivating this "set your laptop OS to UTC" proposal.
... Well, not unless it's some workaround for flawed software running on that machine, perhaps made by developers that misunderstood the business-domain of time zones.
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