> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:04 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers > > In China, your clock is set to Beijing time. Even if you're > at the other > edge of China, 16:00 in Beijing is 16:00 where you are. > > Really, I think every is so adapted to the idea of working > from 8am to 5pm. > Yet it's pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things. > The world would > be a lot simpler if everyone just set their clocks the same. > My iPhone's > world clock feature is loaded with a half-dozen other clocks. > But this > would fall under the same debate as converting the US from > the Imperial > system to Metric, albeit on a global scale. > > Scott
I'd vote for it. And eliminated the stinking "daylight saving time" screw-up! Of course, at my first job, I had the print banner pages print the current date and time in GMT like: nn month yyy hh:mm:ss with a 24 hour clock. I like to have gotten lynched by everybody in that shop. They could not remember how to convert. Subtracting 6 (or 5) was too difficult. Oh, and then subtracting another 12 if the number was >12 was just obscene. I don't like metric, personally. Too Earth-centric. I think we need to totally divorce all time and distance to more "universal" quantities. I nominate the 21 cm hydrogen spectral line for a distance and 7E-10 seconds for time (time for light to travel 21 cm). 1 gigatick would be .7 seconds. Then, we can join the galactic societies! <grin> -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
