From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Feb 21 09:56:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 21 Feb 2001 17:56:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 55482 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2001 17:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Feb 2001 17:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2001 17:55:49 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/0.0.0) with ESMTP id MAA20399; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:57:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A940124.9050503@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:55:48 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010119 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:su'u References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 5553 And Rosta wrote: > You also need to tell me whenabouts I am with respect to GMT. You are spot on GMT at present, and will switch to GMT+1 (British Summer Time) in summer, which for this purpose will begin at 1 AM local time on February 25, it says here. I switch from GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Time) to GMT-4 (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) analogously, but not until 2 AM local time on March 1. > It can't be whatever the time in Greenwich happens to be > (17:09), because twice a year we very perversely add to or > subtract from the day an hour, so as to ensure that the > following day everybody will arrive for appointments one hour > early or one hour late, and will have videoed the wrong > telly programmes. Well, since we live in free and democratic nations, we would resist to the death any government attempt to make us get up and go to bed an hour earlier by law. But sheeplike we accept an edict to change our clocks. Comes to the same thing, except for the practical effects you mention. IMO every Internet user should learn his or her GMT offset(s) and keep them holy. Only so can we reliably communicate about times with people in other countries. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein