On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:44:55AM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:04:00PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > A real fix would be to either: > > * spit out the right time zone abbreviation (for the pedants in the > > audience, I'd like to point out that GMT is the right time zone > > sometimes, and saying something pedant-compatible like UTC is stupid > > as it will confuse people who don't spend their lives dealing with > > timezone pedants, also saying things like +01:00 is just as > > confusing for normal people); but if that's too difficult ... > If what's really needed to be communicated is the actual offset, (so people > can do these calculations in their heads and get them wrong?) then just give > the damn number. > > 14:00-16:00 in Europe/Dublin, Europe/Edinburgh, Europe/Lisbon, > Europe/London time, GMT offset: +01:00 > > Or is it -01:00 during the summer? Heck if I know.
Thus proving my point that +01:00 is just as confusing as what they do at the moment. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.
