Time zones and why they change so damned often (was: the Gravity of Python 2)

[Peter Pearson]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:14:55 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
[snip]
> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't handle
> DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we play
> online, and new players are most welcome, as are people watching!),
> and the Aussies (myself included) know to check UTC time, the Brits
> and Europeans check UTC or just know what UTC is, and the Americans
> say "Doesn't that happen at 8 o'clock Eastern time?" and get confused.

Around 30 years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece
advocating the abandonment of time zones and the unification of the
globe into a single glorious time zone.  After enumerating the 
efficiencies to be achieved by this system, the writer briefly
addressed the question of whose time zone would become the global
standard, promptly arriving at the conclusion that, due to the
concentration of important commerce, the logical choice was the
east coast of the United States.

My point: we deserve the teasing.

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