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

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:04:41 -0400 Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
writes:
> 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.
if we did away with time zones, wouldn't that mean there wouldn't be any
IDL? then we could move it anywhere and no part of the world would be
split between two days. i personally would choose 169ºW as the location
for universal time.

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