<<On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 18:28:46 -0400, Tim Parenti <[email protected]> said:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 at 13:04, Garrett Wollman via tz <[email protected]> wrote: >> So the politicians don't think in terms of software vendors >> distributing updates, they think of *constituents no longer needing to >> reset the clock on the microwave oven*. > Whatever we might end up putting together may well start with some version > of: > Q. Don't computers and phones mostly handle this themselves nowadays? > A. Well, yes, but how do you suppose it is that they know what to do and > when? ;) And many of them probably think "someone at Bell/Rogers/AT&T/Telstra/Vodafone pushes a button". I think, more to the point, you need to explain why it's important that computers and phones in Manitoba know what time it is in England. That's where the disconnect lies. To us it's a matter of course that computers need to communicate times in UTC *with other devices*, but that's not visible to casual end-users. -GAWollman
