On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Teemu Likonen writes:
But in international communication timezone information is sometimes
important.
There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would
really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when
embedded in text) would transmitted and stored in UTC but displayed
according to the locale of the user.
Anyone else remember Internet Time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal
boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that
won't get implemented. Too much inertia.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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