Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system

Mark J. Reed wrote:


> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:17:04PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> > China I believe has a single time zone - Beijing standard-- even though
it
> > extends over many degrees of longitude.
>
> Yup.  If it works for them I don't see why it shouldn't work for everyone
> else. :)
>
I seem to recall reading/hearing that people in far western China find it a
problem. You are suggesting the Chinese system writ large AFAICT.

If as I assume UTC = GMT, why should we in this country (-4 to -7 hours), or
the Japanese, Indians et al adjust our mental clocks to such outmoded
Cultural Imperialism?  London no longer rules the world's commerce; at least
we should make NYC the standard.:-)))  And probably in 50-100 years, we'll
all be on Beijing time.  :-(((

Stockbrokers in the US have to work on NYC time; I suspect Californians
resent having to be at their desks, bright-eyed and alert, by 6:30 AM, even
if the upside is that they can spend the afternoon at the golf course, if
they aren't exhausted from their full morning's work.

As I said, I'm a night-owl, AND a heavy sleeper once I get going.  If World
War III hits much before 9 AM EST, I'll sleep right through it. (Let's see,
that would be 1300 UTC wouldn't it? Macht's nichts.)

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