* Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> [2009 Feb 10 13:12 -0600]: > 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.
That gets you 364 days and we need one more, which could be a holiday that isn't a part of any month and every four years we'll have a two day holiday. It'll never happen as there are too many superstitious people who'd be deathly afraid of the 13th month, although that might keep George Noory busy. :-) - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org