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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 Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> 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 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, 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
