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From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] Choice of time zone (was: In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 11:28:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180807012847.GA6963@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808071043450.19950@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Tuesday,  7 August 2018 at 10:51:12 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> ...; you won't believe the number of "history" sites I've seen that
> directly contradict each other (even when taking UTC/US/local time
> into account, and I try and use local time wherever possible).

To further confuse the issue?  With UTC we know where we are.

Greg
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2018-08-07  1:28   ` grog [this message]
2018-08-07  2:08     ` dave

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