Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 11:04 |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ian Spackman wrote:
> Of course, there's no particular reason to stick to GMT - except that, once
> you've got international agreement on a standard, its pretty daft to open
> the can of worms again by trying to change it without a very good reason.
Don't forget that if you based it from just about anywhere else, some
continent would be split between two days; as it is, the IDL goes
practically bam-smack through the Pacific. This is the primary reason _I_
wouldn't move it.
--
Tristan <kesuari@...>
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
-- Snoopy
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