Re: [cti-stix] Timestamps - Proposal (UTC)

[Trey Darley <trey@soltra.com>]

On 06.12.2015 08:16:45, Eric Burger wrote:
> If the goal is to work with a standard that works everywhere in the
> world and is immune to local, flavor of the day definitions of
> “local time,” the *ONLY* option is UTC. The world cannot agree to a
> single repository to lookup what local time is. The Internet
> community has put one up on a volunteer basis, but it explicitly
> states that it is not normative, may be wrong, and will almost
> certainly be out of date.
> 

Hi, Eric -

On a technical level, I agree with you 110%. But as the timestamp
discussion was approaching Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in terms of
wordcount, in the interest of achieving consensus I agreed with
supporting multiple timezones.

In your view, is the potential downside of *not* making UTC mandatory
*so* detrimental as to justify reopening this debate, or can we live
with the current consensus?

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