Re: OT: Time zone question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 14:45 |
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Peter Collier
<petecollier@...> wrote:
> All that would happen in that scenario is, that
> instead of needing to know that, for example,
> 'Ekaterinburg's time is 5 hours ahead of Dublin, you'd
> need to know that Dulin's working day was perhaps 7am
> to 3pm and Ekaterinburgs 11am to 8pm (assuming the
> standard time was based on a central-ish zone).
For coordinating business across time zones, in other words, there
would be no change whatsoever in the amount of effort. Meanwhile, you
would eliminate all possible confusions of the 'noon my time' vs 'noon
your time' sort. Seems like a net win to me. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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