Steve Rooke wrote: > Hi, > > I've been under the radar for a while so have not been able to keep up > with the threads I was contributing to but that has been done to death > and I will drop them. I've been very interested in reading peoplels > thoughts on time-zones. Has there been any moves to adopt a common > time for all countries in the world so as to alleviate the > difficulties in dealing with time-zones?" I know there was the idea of > Internet-time going around some time ago but I think that seems to > have died a death. Thinking about it, what's the problem of adapting > to daily life which is shifted by some number of hours off the clock. > If we all used UTC everyone around the world would know when a certain > time was in their own day. In my case for New Zealand, +12 hours would > probably be adopted for the country, so AM becomes PM and I'd get up > at 7PM (still that's not much different from now :) instead of AM.
What's this AM and PM stuff got to do with it. You mean you would go up at 19 rather than 7? > I guess the question is, what's the likely-hood of a world standard > time being adopted (sort of like Star Trek)? About zilch. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
