April 5, 2011
3:50 p.m.
On 2011-04-05 11:37, Philip Newton wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 17:32, Paul Goyette<pgoyette@juniper.net> wrote:
None of which addresses the problems encountered by the fact that the date line isn't a line at all, but has several zigs and zags.
:) True. The obvious solutions is to get rid of time zones (and summer time!) entirely and have everyone run on UTC. Might as well decide on a unified currency and language as well while we're at it.
Cheers, Philip
I'd suggest UT1, leap seconds are also confusing and hard to implement in any clocks; though I hear that most COBOL programmers haven't had much work since 2000. -- [X] Strategic Vote - No More Harper Government