On 5 Oct 2007 08:41:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: >IMHO, we should either a) make all time-telling devices adjust >themselves automatically -- with some way to keep up with the local >policy changes that will inevitably occur from time-to-time -- like >mainframes do when synchronized with an ETR (notice the on-topic >reference!) -- or b) just *permanently * set the time half-way between >Standard and Daylight Time and call it even!
China has one time zone. I wish all computers, especially in the networked world, used Zulu. All time-date stamps are Zulu, and end-user programs adjust the display if desired. I suppose the first step now would be to create it in HTML specs. Eventually it would expand into CoBOL reports and such with a function that asks for local time. We don't change our computer's clock, only change the offset. Cell phones and some radios adjust their time automatically. I'd like a car radio with a "set time" button that set the time to match whatever station it is tuned to. I listened to a Mac podcast where he mentioned flying into Phoenix, checking the time and thinking he missed his plane. My son-in-law got an Outlook appointment to meet with his bosses in Seattle, and Outlook translated it to Rocky-Mountain time. That would have been nice for a phone interview, but he flew in - and was an hour off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
