Quoth Gretchen Baxter at 2008-10-26 13:43... > So if a call is called for 10:00 in one part, it is really 10:30 in the > other?
You get used to it. I'm in South Australia but most of my clients are in the Eastern States - it's no more confusing than when I was living in England and dealing with people in Western Europe. I think that the whole point of timezones is to get noon roughly in the middle of the day; if there is only half an hours difference in sunrise between one place and the next, is it not logical to make the difference 30 minutes? Your original subject line had me confused - :05 in one place and :30 in another - that sounds more like a software error ;-) But if you really want to get confused, consider not the zone offsets but the fact that there is no global standardisation on when daylight saving starts and ends - or whether it happens at all. (Queensland does not have daylight saving.) Our daylight saving started a fortnight early this year, most people not being aware of it until there was a reminder on the television news the night before. -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.