On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:56 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > ...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and > 23:59:61? > > Daniel > > Also, do we hate the earthquake that changed the length of the day for messing > with our time-keeping? > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302084522.htm > > (And, finally, for anyone who really wants to despair at the whole thing, > I give you "The Long, Painful History of Time", which is the best write-up > I know of about the engineering difficulties of the topic: > http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html > )
None of this would be a problem if we'd just switch to decimal time in a single timezone and call it a day. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html