[beginner] What's wrong?

Sat Apr 2 15:07:29 EDT 2016

On 4/2/2016 12:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Nowadays software companies and communities are international.

Grade school classrooms, especially pre-high school, are not.
 > You never know who needs to maintain your code.
For one-off school assignments, nobody other than the author.
 > At work, I need to maintain code
> that was created in Japan, with coworkers from all over the world. The
> Japanese author had had a hard time with English, and made some
> awkward naming choices, but had the common sense to use English-only
> names in his code.

Could not have been worse than semi-random ascii like x3tu9.
> I also think log file timestamps should be expressed in UTC.

I agree. Any translation to local time should be in the viewer. I 
presume this is already true for email and news message timestamps.
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Terry Jan Reedy