[COFF] Choice of time zone (was: In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!)

[COFF] Choice of time zone (was: In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!)

[grog]

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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[COFF] Choice of time zone (was: In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!)

[dave]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>> into account, and I try and use local time wherever possible).
>
> To further confuse the issue?  With UTC we know where we are.

No; out of respect for the people who were actually there at the time 
(hence America can be a day behind).

I'll give UTC some thought (which I use for space-related stuff anyway) 
but for example I have no idea which American timezone is which (I only 
know British i.e. UTC and Australian).

On the other hand, I may just stop posting historical stuff completely; I 
don't really care either way, and I would really like to get back to 
Amateur ("ham") radio and electronics in general.

-- Dave (VK2KFU)