begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:57:48PM -0800: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >Which is great for some things (plane schedules, for example) but a pain > >for others (national TV broadcasts) and is largely ignored at the local > >level, like so many things in China. I can assure you that the people in > >western Szechuan do not arise and go to bed at the same clock time as the > >people in Shanghai. > > If they do not rise and go to bed at the same clock time (say, 6am and > 10pm every day) how are they ignoring it? I don't think anyone expects > people to be awake at night and sleep during the day just because they > are on the wrong side of the planet from wherever we draw the prime > meridian.
/me awaits an explanation Yeah, what's all that about? > And why is it a pain for national TV broadcasts? You say something will > air at 1800Z and everyone knows what time it will be on. Or you can say > 1800Z with a repeat at 2200Z so people on both sides of the country can > catch it. My after-dinner TV show is your during-dinner TV show is Lan's at-work TV show is someone else's late night TV show? Look at all the fuss we have with "time slots" -- getting a bad timeslot can apparently kill a show. > And finally, does everyone in China really keep their clocks set to the > same time or don't they? I don't see how they couldn't if the government > or someone doesn't draw timezone lines. Set it so local midday is noon, and then stop worrying about it. -- Oh-dark-thirty, Early morning, morning, late morning, midday, early afternoon, afternoon, late afternoon, early evening, evening, night. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
