Re: vive le BIH!
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John.Cowan" writes: >Clive D.W. Feather scripsit: > >> The problem here is Microsoft, whose software appears to believe that the >> current LCT here is "GMT Daylight Time". > >How thoroughly stupid. Nevertheless, when I talked to the teleconference >organizer, it became thoroughly clear that for him "GMT" meant "the time >on my wristwatch or wall clock", and that he had no idea that anyone had >any other meaning for the abbreviation. It is not unrelated to why some of us think that changing the definition of UTC is infinitely more possible than changing the rest of the worlds educational level with regards to timekeeping. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Re: vive le BIH!
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit: > The problem here is Microsoft, whose software appears to believe that the > current LCT here is "GMT Daylight Time". How thoroughly stupid. Nevertheless, when I talked to the teleconference organizer, it became thoroughly clear that for him "GMT" meant "the time on my wristwatch or wall clock", and that he had no idea that anyone had any other meaning for the abbreviation. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan O beautiful for patriot's dream that sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law! -- one of the verses not usually taught in U.S. schools
Re: vive le BIH!
John.Cowan said: > Another point made in the article, that "GMT" is a conventional name > for the U.K.'s LCT, is all too true. No, it isn't. > Recently I was to take part in a > teleconference scheduled for such and such a time GMT. Since I live on > a small island off the coast of North America, I am in UTC-4 currently, > and I naively interpreted the time as UTC+0, but in fact UTC+1 (BST) > was meant. Oopsie. The problem here is Microsoft, whose software appears to believe that the current LCT here is "GMT Daylight Time". -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel:+44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax:+44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc||
Re: vive le BIH!
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html >>The second is now defined not as the a fraction of a day, and >>therefore an even smaller fraction of a year. It is 9,192,631,770 >>periods of radiation from a caesium atom in its ground state. Looks like this reporter's idea of the current definition of the second is a few years old too... Warner
Re: vive le BIH!
Steve Allen scripsit: > Australia's change to UTC is about to happen. > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html Another point made in the article, that "GMT" is a conventional name for the U.K.'s LCT, is all too true. Recently I was to take part in a teleconference scheduled for such and such a time GMT. Since I live on a small island off the coast of North America, I am in UTC-4 currently, and I naively interpreted the time as UTC+0, but in fact UTC+1 (BST) was meant. Oopsie. > The most curious note is that Dr. Catchpole seems to think the BIH > still exists. The BIH was vivisected at the end of 1987 so that the > IERS could be created and assimilate its astronomical portion. 62-year-olds do occasionally make slips of this kind, perhaps particularly when their professional interests lie in a different part of the field altogether. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
