On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:21 AM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:36:10 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > > >I am giving a BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer on Thursday, > >September 24 in the last session period - 16:15 Eastern time zone, > >15:15 Central time zone, 14:15, Mountain time zone, 13:15 Pacific > >time, 17:15 Atlantic time zone in Canada and 17:45 in Newfoundland. > > > Couldn't you simply say GMT? What time in Arizona? Hawaii? > The Navajo Nation? ... > Why not GMT (now UTC)? You'd be amazed how many IT people don't know what that means and can't grasp it. I once wrote a report program which put out the date in the format: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ (ISO 8601) and I got screamed at. When I asked, I said it was the Universal time, in military format (24 hour clock). I was forced to change it to the "US standard" of mm/dd/yy hh:ms:ss xM (x==A or P) because nobody understood that format and it was too difficult for them to understand. This was IT internal only. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
