On 07/25/2012 09:03 PM, anne-ology wrote:
you're so cute ...after all, those folks north of the northern snow belt - and south of the southern - don't seem to worry about the long days, long nights; they still stick to their schedule ;-) BTW - for those who are too young to remember pre-computing days, the month would either be spelled out, or abbreviated; still the most sensible system to my way of thinking ;-)
They stopped using quill pens just before I entered school:-D
Only with these computers, did some of these scientists decide they should add the hour, minute, second to the time format ... GMT was the standard for centuries - Big Ben's still ticking away, isn't it? On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: On 07/25/2012 03:43 PM, anne-ology wrote:Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ... ... .... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ... /snip/This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year/snip You're right! We should just have daylight saving time all year long. Or if we want to change the clock twice a year, we should have DST in the winter and Double DST in the summer! --doug
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