In what case you would use non-UTC timezone on a server?

Question

I'm curious what would be someone's reasoning behind using a non-UTC timezone (esp. the one with daylight savings). I've noticed Gmail's email headers showing PDT (UTC-0700) timezone (in Received header), so I'm assuming that it's their servers are running at PDT, and I might be wrong.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

User preference, I guess.

If you have equipment and administration staff spread throughout several timezones, it's typically easiest to stick with UTC. If that's not the case, though, sometimes it's just as easy to use whatever timezone you reside in.