Time zones and why they change so damned often

[Mark Lawrence]

On 10/01/2014 18:48, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-01-10 18:22, Peter Pearson wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> What a silly idea!
>
> The logical choice is UTC. :-)

Hell will freeze over first.  But apparently it already has in 
Minnesota.  Drat, drat and double drat!!!

>
>> My point: we deserve the teasing.
>>
>


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Mark Lawrence