At 09:50 2013-02-18, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 17:53 2013-02-17, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> It's a tricky problem yes. Just another argument that we'd all be better
>> off thinking
>> in UTC.
> Ha! Have you thought it through?
>
> I live in -8. That means at my local 4 P.M., it is UTC midnight.
> That would make "yesterday", "today", and "tomorrow" ambiguous.
Yet none of this is a time or a date problem. Why all the talk about it?
Sure it is. Having ambiguities in what times/dates mean make
hash of appointment systems.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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