We seem to have been here before, many, indeed too many times.

There are arguments for displaying or printing local times; there may
be arguments for scheduling things manually using local times.   In
the United States, alone in the world, there may perhaps be some
justification for providing hoi polloi with am|m|pm, twelve-hour-clock
values in such situations.

There is no intellectually respectable argument for running an
operating system on anything  but UTC.   When STCKE values and their
derivatives are UTC-based these pseudo-problems, those of missing and
duplicate timestamp values, do not arise.

I am not so great an admirer of Ludwig Wittgenstein as some
professional philosophers whom I respect, but he did make some points
memorably, and among them was that

About things we know not, we ought to be silent.


John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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