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On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:24:30 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon
<denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:57:55 +0200, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
>
>> or perhaps by confiruing the timezone of the server to use Greece's
>> TimeZone by issuing a linux command?
>
>If you have that degreee of control over the server, yes, but UTC is 
>always safer, because if you need to move your server to a different site 
>(eg disaster recovery) UTC is still UTC.

	And you don't have to run a batch job on your database to change
timestamps relative to the server local time.
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