June 6, 2005
7:33 a.m.
On 6 Jun 2005, at 03:57, Robert Elz wrote:
Even as just friendly info, zone names help rather than hinder only in those locations (countries really, though Europe might count as a country for this) where there are multiple timezones - in others, the time is just the time, and has no name at all.
Spot on. That's why I struggled to understand the concept of generic time, let alone put a name to it. As Clive Feather writes elsewhere, there is no generic name for the time used in the UK. Peter Ilieve peter@aldie.co.uk