[beginner] What's wrong?

[Terry Reedy]

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.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy