In article <Q1Enf.146345$y_1.137743_at_edtnps89>, Oliver Wong
<owong_at_castortech.com> writes
>
>"Howard Brazee" <howard_at_brazee.net> wrote in message
>news:06rtp11thge1m7hun83r04trmmigpba77u_at_4ax.com...
>> As a programmer, there is something I would rather have than a world
>> wide metric system - and that's a world wide time system. Let's all
>> go to Zulu time.
>>
>> But there are people who can't imagine it being "noon" in the middle
>> of the night - it just isn't natural nor part of God's plan!
>
> Agreed. The sooner as we rid this silly notion that time depends on the
>Earth's spin and position, the better. There is currently too much confusion
>synchronizing events between people in different time zones.
>
> "5 o'clock, next Sunday? My time zone or yours? Yours? Okay, do you have
>daylight savings or anything funky going on over there? You do? Well, when
>does it end? This Tuesday? Okay, so are you moving ahead one hour or back
>one hour? No, I mean, if you didn't have daylight savings, would the 5
>o'clock become 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock? No, it's no good here either, because
>my daylight ends tomorrow. I'm moving ahead. Yes, 1 hour ahead. No, as in it
>used to be noon, now it's 1. What?"
>
> - Oliver
OK.. so lets all stick with GMT
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Received on Tue Dec 13 2005 - 13:24:08 CST
