Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 14:42 |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Actually, 9AM E*S*T is 1400 UTC. However, at the moment the US
> Eastern time zone is on daylight savings time, and 9AM E*D*T is 1300
> UTC. Daylight savings time just adds to the confusion. Especially in
> the fall. If it is the first Sunday in October and your local time is
> 0130, you have no way of knowing without resorting to external
> resources whether that's 0130 EDT == 0530 UTC or 0130 EST == 0630 UTC.
> Which means, come 0200, you don't know whether to fall back or not,
> unless you remember whether or not you've already done so.
Other confusions caused by daylight savings time are that while Queensland
doesn't have it, business there unofficially run on it when Victoria and
New South Wales do, and the Sydney 2000 Olympics caused daylight savings
to start early so that our time could be a better fit for America's.
--
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