On Mon 03 Jul 2017 at 13:00:24 (-0300), Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I could say the same for for US not using a metric system, you don't change > this by force even if it is right.
The discussion is not about units, but about reference points.¹ > I don't need UTC, many people around the world doesn't neither, leave UTC > for those who need it. True; before the dawn of railways, everyone lived on local time. > We can avoid a lot of mess with that. I have no idea what the mess is that you're trying to avoid by using local time. > Em 3 de jul de 2017 12:03, "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > escreveu: > > > The future could get complicated for people not running on UTC > if time offsets of a few seconds start to arise. AIUI timezones > as presently implemented can't handle that. ¹ personally, the most inconvenient thing about US units is the chaotic paper size system as there's no real way round it. The reason that _does_ involve the units is of course that the physical paper sizes are derived _from_ the units. Cheers, David.