How can rdiff-backup use UTC as the timezone?
Like other Unix and Python programs, rdiff-backup respects the TZ environment variable, which can be used to temporarily change the timezone. On Unix, simply set TZ=UTC either in your shell, or on the command line used to run rdiff-backup. On Windows, the command USE TZ=UTC sets the %TZ% environment variable, and can be used either in a batch script, or at the DOS prompt.