On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Zefram wrote:
>
> Same for years too: the Roman calendar was naturally arranged so
> that the annual period of growing and harvesting things was entirely
> encompassed by the calendar year. Imagine how annoying it would be if the
> summer overlapped the legal year end. Oh, wait: southern hemisphere.
> Somehow they cope without a season zone offset six months from the
> northern hemisphere.
cf. academic and tax years. I note that typical time libraries don't
support the 2006/7 notation, so a similar notation for days would be
likely to cause problems given their more widespread use.
> I have an idea what might precipitate the switch to UT, too. [...]
> I think Pacific airlines will be the first to give up on timezones,
> and adopt UTC, so that the schedules are less confusing.
Good call. I have found that keeping my watch on GMT worked quite well
when I was in San Francisco and regularly communicating with people in the
UK, but when I moved back to Cambridge a GMT watch during BST was similar
yet wrong enough to be too confusing.
Tony.
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