On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2021, Ben Scott was heard to say: >> Even that's not enough, because the stupid humans keep changing >> what the time zones mean. > > With GMT as the standard time stamp, one can at least know relative > times of files, even if one does not know such real-world details. > > I've gotten into a couple of heated arguments for/against the idea of > using GMT for everything, and then adapting what time things happen > to local conditions. The reactions to that idea have been > fascinating. Much like the arguments about Daylight Saving. > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you wake > up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on their > clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be?
Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does? Every Spring, I get delighted that the sun is finally rising early enough to make it easy to get up at what's supposed to be `a reasonable time' in the morning, and I then DST comes in and makes the sun not rise for another hour. Ha-ha! Early April Fools'! Another month of dark mornings! And then all of the news channels are flooded with people opining about how much `better' it would be `if we just had DST all year' because all they care about is having daylight-fun hours at the _tail end of the day_, because..., I don't know--they're all unemployed? Or by the end of the day they've forgotten how hard it was to get out of the bed and be useful that morning? And I guess by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot that `winter' even was ever a thing.... -- Connect with me on the GNU social network: <https://status.hackerposse.com/rozzin> Not on the network? Ask me for an invitation to a social hub! _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/