Commenting to Andika’s posting on how fatal can be a BTS having wrong time zone, I agree that certain mission-critical or critical applications require a solid time zone. Though SMS (BTS main services) purposes is for “time-stamp” only, it is plain annoying to have a SMS that have wrong time-stamp, let alone serious identification like fraud or log scan, it will be messed up. For other type of servers that requires synchronization between servers simply like Squid or others would not be executed properly if the time spread (read: err) is too wide. Put NTP (The Network Time Protocol) server in the table. It seems like a simple thing to do but there’s bunch of corporate engineers who don’t know how to setup it properly nor keep that in mind to set it up on the first place.
As for Mac OS X (server and client), since it’s a GUI thing, everything is only a click away. But I notice something bothering my eyes, Apple assumed that Indonesia is only one time zone, and it’s called WIT Jakarta. Check the below pictures:
There’s two serious flaws in this Time Zone:
1. Jakarta should called WIB, it’s “Waktu Indonesia Barat” (Western Indonesia Time Zone).
2. Indonesia is divided into 3 time zones: Waktu Indonesia Barat or WIB (Western Indonesia Time), Waktu Indonesia Tengah or WITA (Central Indonesia Time) and Waktu Indonesia Timur or WIT (Eastern Indonesia Time). WIB can be represent by Jakarta, WITA can be represent by Bali, and WIT can be represent by Jayapura.
Bali is WITA, 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or GMT same as Singapore, meanwhile WIB minus 1 hour and WIT plus 1 hour.
Well therefore I should assume that Indonesia is not Apple’s primary target for marketing. Since I believe that it will change sometimes soon, the new embrace of Mac generations, I should say Apple should fix this in forthcoming release. I should also blame the government overall for it’s poor marketing promotion. I missed Jop Ave. Ex-tourism minister and also public speaker who speak loud on Indonesia and Bali and welcoming tourism. Overall I missed Suharto’s administration. It certainly a better administration than all the successors. π
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