On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:14:16 -0500, Chase, John wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab >> >> For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In Australia, each state. >> Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep track of time >> zones? > ><lobby> >Convert all local schedules, etc. to GMT, or "Zulu" time. In Chicagoland, >e.g., I'd go to work at 1200 and work until 2100 "Zulu" except during >"Daylight Saving" time when I'd work from 1100 until 2000. ></lobby> > Sounds good in theory, but in practice, the will of the people, wise or otherwise, prevails. That will can't be overruled by the needs of IT. Your proposal, if implemented, would soon engender a semiannual switch between GMT and GMDT.
>"It's not rocket science." > No, it's politics. That's harder. On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:09:02 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:35:36 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote: > >>Seems like it ought to be a link from NOAA or Naval Observatory time. > >That could work for locations in the USA. It would be no help at all in >places where the time zone was changed for the benefit of a visiting >foreign dignitary. > I believe China has a single time zone. But Chile has two. IIRC, in 1999 a certain Pacific island relocated itself from the western hemisphere to the eastern so it could be the first place in the world to experience the arrival of the 21st (by some naive reckoning) century. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
