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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. -- Oscar Wilde A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
