Those servers are out of spec, then. The RFC says it's supposed to be POSIX time, i.e., always in UTC. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952

Perhaps those servers are running Windows, where the time is local time and the server doesn't want to spend the effort to do the conversion?

The spec predicted in 1996 that this would happen: "(Note that this may cause problems for MS-DOS and other systems that use local rather than Universal time.)"

Are you seriously suggesting Windows doesn't know the concept of UTC time? And secondly suggesting that fiddling with timezone offsets is an expensive conversion?

the system clock on windows is not UTC, it is local time. On Unix the clock is always UTC and is converted to local time for display purposes.

That is the same as Windows. Where are you getting your information?

No, there was a time when Windows stored local time -- also synced to BIOS clock. I don't think that's true anymore, though.

it remains true in windows 10, although it can be changed via some registry fudging.

Powershell is exactly what bash should be (and this person wants). Their time would have better spent using and improving the pash project (open source Powershell on Mono): https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash

Powershell is primarily a repl to a homogeneous .NET-based set of tools, which doesn't describe Unix very well. If you want a type-safe repl that interacts with all the handy tools written for the text-stream-only Unix world you're going to have to do some interpretation.

I think the approach of https://airtable.com/ is a better solution for these kind of problems, but not everybody is free to change tools.

A lot of data is already in spreadsheets. And using an existing spreadsheet in AirTable is not quick and easy because its only possible with csv import: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/203423579-Imp...

Strange they do not offer a more direct import. It would help the transition.

A bit late to the punch, but we also let you copy and paste from most other spreadsheet programs directly into Airtable

That's too bad, because you missed the brilliant ending to the post, in which the author answers the question posed in the title:

> P.S. As noted in [link], Racket programs build and run much slower than Go programs.