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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 15:44
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system


> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:58:15AM +0100, Joe wrote: > > It should be GMT because it's always been that way. As long as you don't > > call it UTC, because that would be biased. > > Biased how? Do you just mean the "earth == the universe" bias, or
something
> else?
Eh, never mind, I was tired when I wrote that. That is a point, though. When we have space colonies, what time will they use? I suppose colonies on planets won't have a problem(they can probably use local time of some kind), but what about Space Stations?
> -Mark >

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