June 11, 2004
11:45 p.m.
Mark Davis wrote:
Those pesky non-English speakers! But there is a point: simply because I don't speak Russian does mean that I would have no occasion to see or use time zones that happen to be in Russia.
For example, my coworker in Russia may schedule a meeting, which will occur in Moscow during my visit over there next week, but I have asked the calendaring software to report stuff to me in the en_US locale. Hence I get a message, in English, with a Russian time zone. If the meeting were in San Jose, CA, then I would expect the time zone to be that of San Jose, and my Russian coworker would expect the Russian translation of (the short or the long form of) PDT. Eric.