Thierry van Steenberghe wrote: > > Steve Lelievre wrote: > > > > > Ireland is on the same timezone at the UK, and so is Portugal. It s > > Anyway, timezones don't solve the whole problem. When I lived in England I > > did a lot of business with Finland (+2 hours), and France and Germany (+1). > > It was difficult to contact colleagues when we needed to. Yes, this was due > > Still, it's more easy to find somebody in UK or Finland than in the US, from > Europe, that is, don't you think? I remember when I was in a company here in > Brussels, how difficult it was to call equipment providers in the US.
Hey, guys, how about inventing a flat world with a sun burning from far, far, far away and turning itself on and off 12 hours? If it is very, very far away every corner of the new, flat world will be equally lit. And if it turns itself on and off regularly there will be no time zones, no shift differences, no daylight saving in the Summer and none of the problems some of us have been discussing. Let's accept for a fact that all those problems are NOT created by time zones or daylight saving time. They are not even problems. They are the reality we are provided with. And if we are interested in causes, it is because the Earth is a ball, it revolves and moves, so on and so forth. :-) - fernando -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9" S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47º 49' 58.6" W 19º 37' 57.0" S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45º 17' 13.6" W ------------------------------------------------------------------
