OTOH, there's considerable utility in knowing when it's lunchtime,
etc., in other localities because that's a bad time to attempt
a phone call. One of our offices which does considerable
global conferencing has a half dozen clocks on the wall, displaying
the time at our other major offices (you've seen similar in TV
and press newsrooms). It would miss the mark to have them all
show UTC.
If they are analog clocks, you could orient each one with its
local noon at the top. ;-)
Of course, once you get into UTC, analog clocks don't work so
well because time is only part of it, date being the other.
From: Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Time Zones (Was: IBMLink is UP - just kidding)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:11:15 -0500
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:36:32 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2007 09:27:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
>>Or c) set all clocks worldwide to GMT (UTC) and just learn what time of
>>day things (like sunrise, sunset, lunchtime, bedtime, "happy hour",
>>etc.) happen in "your" locality.
>
>World sports (ESPN time) may lead towards some public acceptance of
>this idea.
>
OTOH, there's considerable utility in knowing when it's lunchtime,
etc., in other localities because that's a bad time to attempt
a phone call. One of our offices which does considerable
global conferencing has a half dozen clocks on the wall, displaying
the time at our other major offices (you've seen similar in TV
and press newsrooms). It would miss the mark to have them all
show UTC.
I suppose that if our lunchtime is 1800 UTC, the clock for Canberra
could be adjusted to show 1800 whenever it's lunchtime in Canberra.
This would work middling well except for an employee based in
Canberra who happens to visit the home office.
And I recall the time I tried to telephone someone a couple zones
east of me:
(Admin. Asst's voice): "He's out to lunch."
(Early, I thought. But when he returns, I'll be at lunch.): "Can
he call me back two hours from now?"
(Long pause): "I don't know; what time zone are you in?"
I had intended "two hours from now" to make that question and
convoluted computation unnecessary.
-- gil
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