On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:10:41 +, Alister wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:52:36 +, Bob Martin wrote:
>we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich
>Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we
>have also used DST (Double Summer Tim
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:10:41 +, Alister wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:52:36 +, Bob Martin wrote:
>we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich
>Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we
>have also used DST (Double Summer Tim
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:52:36 +, Bob Martin wrote:
we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich
Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we
have also used DST (Double Summer Time).
>>>
>>> British Summer Time *is* Daylight Saving Time
On Friday 10 January 2014 21:52:49 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:55:37 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
>
> declaimed the following:
> >It got darned cold here in Minnesota on Monday (-23F in Minneapolis,
> >-35F in Embarass), but Hell is in Michigan -- where it only got down
>
in 714281 20140110 090409 Alister wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:31:11 +, Bob Martin wrote:
>
>> in 714232 20140109 120741 Alister wrote:
>>>On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>
On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben F
In article ,
Peter Pearson wrote:
> Around 30 years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece
> advocating the abandonment of time zones and the unification of the
> globe into a single glorious time zone. After enumerating the
> efficiencies to be achieved by this system, the writer b
On Friday 10 January 2014 15:24:11 Mark Lawrence did opine:
> On 10/01/2014 18:48, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2014-01-10 18:22, Peter Pearson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't
> >>> h
On 2014-01-10, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Hell will freeze over first. But apparently it already has in
> Minnesota. Drat, drat and double drat!!!
It got darned cold here in Minnesota on Monday (-23F in Minneapolis,
-35F in Embarass), but Hell is in Michigan -- where it only got down
to -15F.
On 10/01/2014 18:48, MRAB wrote:
On 2014-01-10 18:22, Peter Pearson wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
[snip]
What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't handle
DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we play
online, and new pl
On 2014-01-10 18:22, Peter Pearson wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
[snip]
What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't handle
DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we play
online, and new players are most welcome, as are peo
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
[snip]
> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't handle
> DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we play
> online, and new players are most welcome, as are people watching!),
> and the Aussies (myse
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:31:11 +, Bob Martin wrote:
> in 714232 20140109 120741 Alister wrote:
>>On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney
wrote:
> I'm approaching it
in 714232 20140109 120741 Alister wrote:
>On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney
>>> wrote:
I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking
about when I a
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico
wrote:
[1] For those who aren't right up on timezone trivia, AZ has no DST.
Similarly the Australian state of Queensland does not shift its
clocks.
And Indiana.
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On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney
>> wrote:
>>> I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking
>>> about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-)
>>
>>
On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking
about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-)
I would definitely support the scrapping of DST. I'm less sure that we
need
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking
> about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-)
I would definitely support the scrapping of DST. I'm less sure that we
need exactly 24 timezones around the world, tho
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > With time zones, as with text encodings, there is a single
> > technically elegant solution (for text: Unicode; for time zones:
> > twelve simple, static zones that never change)
>
> Twelve or twenty-four?
Twenty-fou
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