On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the point of it? > > > > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , > > "As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world." > > > > Well, gee, since Internet Time is equivalent to BMT, what's the > > big deal about "same all over the world" and "the era of time zones > > has disappeared"? The same would be true about GMT, American EST, > > or any other time zone that people standardize on. > > > > In fact, long ago, the US military standardized on GMT as "Zulu > > time", as opposed to "Lima", a.k.a. local time. > > > > They'd have had a fighting chance if they'd have stuck with GMT. > > In fact, I think that a metric system based on GMT is a good idea, > > since 1/100th of a "beat" is 0.864 seconds, which gives just as > > good a granularity as the second. > > > > BMT is, so far as I know, a marketing scam of Swatch. It has > zero intellectual merit, and near zero following in the internet > world. Existing, accepted time standards were developed as part of > the development of astronomy. In astronomy research, an accepted
Thought so. I asked because Gnome Clock 2.2.2 has it, and wondered if I was missing something. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Note to LSU and Valdosta State students: India is not an Arab country! http://www.talonnews.com/news/2003/october/1009_college_dems_jind al.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
