At 9/22/01 9:48 AM, Rick Baraniuk wrote:
>Sunrise names will resolve at 12:00am UDT September 22, 2001.
Rick, I think you're still a little shaky on your time zones: according
to what I can find on the Web, UDT is "Uruguay Daylight Time". Unless
there's been a big change at OpenSRS headquarters, I think you mean UTC
(i.e., GMT).
(Digression: UTC intentionally doesn't stand for anything. The French and
English-language communities needed an acronym for the phrases
"Coordinated Universal Time" in English and "Temps Universel Coordonn�"
in French. They couldn't agree whether the acronym should be "CUT" or
"TUC", so they compromised on "UTC" because it's meaningless in both
languages. Note it's NOT "UCT", because that sounds too much like it
might stand for the English phrase "Universal Coordinated Time", which
isn't the right phrase but would encourage English speakers to think the
acronym belonged to them.)
Also, when speaking of UTC, it's incorrect to say "am" or "pm". The times
should be given in 24 hour time, as in "0000 UTC" or "0730 UTC".
So, it would be correct to say that the zones begin to resolve at "8:00
PM EDT, 0000 UTC."
Unfortunately, (and yes, I do have a point -- here it comes) it's now 17
hours past that time and no sunrise names, including my own
holidaylights.info, resolve.
Hmmph.
Also, checking the dates in the Afilias WHOIS, it appears that the
expiration date of sunrise names is July (i.e., a multiple of 12 months
after we applied for them, not 12 months after they start working). Will
the expiration dates be adjusted to match when they start working?
Otherwise, we paid for two months of service we didn't get.
--
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
