[time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another
Matthew Smith
matt at smiffytech.com
Sun Oct 26 03:20:59 UTC 2008
Quoth Gretchen Baxter at 2008-10-26 13:43...
> So if a call is called for 10:00 in one part, it is really 10:30 in the
> other?
You get used to it. I'm in South Australia but most of my clients are
in the Eastern States - it's no more confusing than when I was living in
England and dealing with people in Western Europe.
I think that the whole point of timezones is to get noon roughly in the
middle of the day; if there is only half an hours difference in sunrise
between one place and the next, is it not logical to make the difference
30 minutes?
Your original subject line had me confused - :05 in one place and :30 in
another - that sounds more like a software error ;-)
But if you really want to get confused, consider not the zone offsets
but the fact that there is no global standardisation on when daylight
saving starts and ends - or whether it happens at all. (Queensland does
not have daylight saving.) Our daylight saving started a fortnight
early this year, most people not being aware of it until there was a
reminder on the television news the night before.
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