On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
> No. I mean: let's all of us stop thinking in our local timezones and set all
> our
> clocks for UTC. Once we all got over the initial learning curve, time-zone
> confusion
> would be a thing of the past.
>
> Kind of like converting to metric, it'll never happen, but I wish it could.
The two are not comparable. There is no objective basis for preferring
imperial over metric due to location; it's simply habit and the stubbornness of
some people to change. But a system that makes it dark at noon and bright at
midnight does have a rational basis for locational differences.
I wrote the maintenance scheduling system for Rackspace, and that
involves scheduling things so that a customer in one time zone knows when a
maintenance will happen on their equipment in a different time zone, all of
which is orchestrated by a service tech in a third zone. It can be scheduled in
the future, during which one or more of those locations can undergo a daylight
savings change. So yeah, I think I know a little bit about calendaring
difficulties. ;-)
-- Ed Leafe
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