> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
>
> On 12 Mar 2007 08:28:56 -0700, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>
> >Another US-Centric series of posts.
> >Only Canada and the US moved to DST, this weekend past.
> >And, only the US seems to think it mattered to the rest of the world.
> >
> >(I was going to say all of North America, but I cannot recall if
Mexico
> >did, or not.)
>
> Software that organizes meetings need to know all applicable time
> zones.
Software could get along fine using GMT/UTC worldwide. *People* who
organize meetings would need to know availability schedules of invitees.
For example, here in "Chicagoland", my "summer" workday would be 11:30 -
21:00 Z; the equivalent "daylight-oriented" schedule in San Francisco
would be 13:30 - 23:00 Z. In the winter season my Chicagoland schedule
would be 12:30 - 22:00. No Big Deal. The NYSE would "open" at 14:30
and "close" at 21:00 "normally", and if they wanted to "save daylight"
during the summer season they would simply adjust their schedule to
"open" at 13:30 instead of 14:30, and "close" at 20:00 instead of 21:00.
"High noon" could still be defined locally as the time of day when the
sun is "directly overhead".
Of course, we (US) still insist on measuring temperatures in degrees
Fahrenheit; distances in miles/yards/feet/inches; weights in
pounds/ounces; liquids in ounces/pints/quarts/gallons; etc. despite
having legislatively been "metricized" around 1980.
-jc-
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