SOLVED What is the difference between UTC and client local time

[Dineshyadav]

Hi,
During software updates deployment what to choose ?. Client local time or UTC ?. I want to know difference between UTC and client local time.

 

[Maunil Mehta]

Hi Dinesh,

Difference between UTC and client Local time describe below ,
1)
If you use UTC then all the machines would kick off at the exact same time. If you say 9PM UTC then no matter what time zone or what time is on the client it will kick off when it is 8pm UTC. If you set it for Client local time then the deployment is depending on the local machine time.

For a global company you can set it for client local time and thus the deployment will follow the sun.

2)
deployment of any software, Microsoft update that will deploy on bases on the current timming (local timmings)

For an eample ; If you deploy software update let's say 17:00 PM, local time , then it should be taking that time only and after 17:01 PM it will start deploying and update.

But if you select UTC, then it will not wait till 17:00 PM and what ever the current time as per region it will select and deploy to all targeted machine.

Thanks