Re: Time zones and why they change so damned often

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From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
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Subject	Re: Time zones and why they change so damned often
Date	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:26:22 -0500
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On Friday 10 January 2014 15:24:11 Mark Lawrence did opine:

> On 10/01/2014 18:48, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2014-01-10 18:22, Peter Pearson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> 
> >>> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't
> >>> handle DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign
> >>> (we play online, and new players are most welcome, as are people
> >>> watching!), and the Aussies (myself included) know to check UTC
> >>> time, the Brits and Europeans check UTC or just know what UTC is,
> >>> and the Americans say "Doesn't that happen at 8 o'clock Eastern
> >>> time?" and get confused.
> >> 
> >> Around 30 years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece
> >> advocating the abandonment of time zones and the unification of the
> >> globe into a single glorious time zone.  After enumerating the
> >> efficiencies to be achieved by this system, the writer briefly
> >> addressed the question of whose time zone would become the global
> >> standard, promptly arriving at the conclusion that, due to the
> >> concentration of important commerce, the logical choice was the
> >> east coast of the United States.
> > 
> > What a silly idea!
> > 
> > The logical choice is UTC. :-)
> 
> Hell will freeze over first.  But apparently it already has in
> Minnesota.  Drat, drat and double drat!!!

That Hell the headlines referred to is in Michigan...  Its a headline they 
drag out every time we get a cold snap & its ano otherwise slow news day.

Nothing to see here, now move along please...

> 
> >> My point: we deserve the teasing.


Cheers, Gene
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