Rob Seaman scripsit: > I did find it striking, however, that the public confusion being > discussed was completely unconnected to issues of precision > timekeeping such as leap seconds. Rather, the very definition of > civil time was misunderstood, whether by Microsoft or by somebody > else.
I think this greatly overstates the case. There was a mere misapplication of labels involved, both in the case of the conference leader (who believes that the name "GMT" refers to the LCT of the U.K.) and the anonymous Microsoft programmer (who believes that British Summer Time should be called "GMT Daylight Time"). -- With techies, I've generally found John Cowan If your arguments lose the first round http://www.reutershealth.com Make it rhyme, make it scan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Then you generally can [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make the same stupid point seem profound! --Jonathan Robie
