None of this has anything to do with the sun's position .. it's having computers all over the world show the same time at whatever moment during the day or night you choose. Timezones are just offsets to that.
Scott Rohling On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:48 AM, David L. Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15Mar19:0045-0400, Alan Altmark wrote: > > > But you must be careful. If you think about this too hard, you will > > create a tear in the time-space continuum and fall in. Just remember > that > > "The music is reversible, but time is not. Kcab nrut, kcab nrut, ...." > > What is it about computers and their clocks that after > so many decades, we still struggle with getting this right? > We can leave the politicians and their local time games > out of this. Why does the world standard need to be concerned > with the sun's position at exactly noon anyway--why not let > just the applications that have a need to know (does that > include GPS?) deal with it? The engineering issues been > resolved, but we still can't build consensus globally for a > proper standard. Am I the only person who considers this > state of affairs embarrassing? > -- > <not cent from sell> > May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! > > Dave_Craig______________________________________________ > "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. > You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. > Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." > __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
