Dear Tails developers, I like to propose that you please change the string “GMT” to “UTC” in the GUI, or omit it entirely, because I am no British person nor do I live in the U.K. I live in Western Eurasia, the German speaking part, and feel really offended when seeing this GMT string. While using …

Sure, we do have fun with this thread! :wink::blush::joy: But seriously, the GMT string should be really removed, as I said before, no software I ever used displays GMT.

Before this thread that thought never crossed my mind. I checked my Windows machines and they just show my time. No zone. The Linux machines doing community computing are the same. The one running Snowflake has 2 times. The second one is UTC without the label. The logs are UTC. You’re correct, you …

[image] ch1ffr3punk: While using software for more than 40 years, I never ever encountered this in software I am using. you need to get out more - the string 'GMT" is used by over a hundred locales in over a hundred timezone formats .. I’m not going to enumerate them for you - but here’s one:…

We do not need this “GMT” string! Time zone and daylight saving time data Coordinated Universal Time - Wikipedia

[image] thorin: Atlantic/Reykjavik I understand about stuff like Atlantic/Reykjavik and others. I see nothing about timezones in the Tor browser. I use the Windows version. Looked into Windows and Ubuntu and neither show GMT. I thought we were talking about what is displayed on the task bar. …

Excuse me but what does GMT mean to you? I’ve always read it as Greenwich Mean Time. Is that what is making you offended?

[image] BobbyB: I see nothing about timezones in the Tor browser its the timezone tor browser provides for web sites, rather that your system one. so JS will always get that timezone and depending on formatting, it will see GMT or Greenwich Mean Time. Internally, i.e for non web-accessible, i…

Yes, GMT, which I know what it means, offends me, as I am no Brit nor do I live in the U.K. UTC is the successor of GMT, as shown in my previous URLs and Tails should use it as well, or omit the GMT string entirely.

[image] ch1ffr3punk: omit the GMT string entirely Please don’t. Users not in UTC+0 timezones will get confused, especially if they haven’t learned about timezones.

It really would be best to remove the GMT string, as users who will install Tails too, get confused by GMT, because UTC is the successor and GMT is not displayed in any software people use. Also, when doing international online meetings, with time planners, UTC is common ground and the preferred cho…

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I did, all I have ever been objecting to is “removing GMT without adding UTC”: