From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 10:42:19 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet! In-Reply-To: References: <86tw604x6n.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <20170407065725.GG34113@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: Moving to Hong Kong has made this a major issue for me as well... It can be strange sending stuff from the future and getting replies in the past, just as I then forget to phone people the day after for stuff so I have to slide my calendar+1 day. It's a shame we don't have a real universal time On April 8, 2017 1:13:42 PM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall wrote: >On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> > Actual data transmissions were first made on October 29 later that >> > year. If my two-minute research checks out. >> >> Yes, this was my date, too, though I call it 30 October (UTC). >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#ARPANET > >This is a problem that I regularly face, when keeping a global >calendar. > >I'm in Australia (Sydney time), which is pretty much at the leading >edge >of the dateline, but most of America is close to the trailing edge, and > >therefore events can happen "yesterday". > >So, which reference should I use? My time, US time (for US events), or > >UTC? I'm starting to lean towards the latter, but it's equally >confusing; >I'll have people saying that it happened yesterday, by their reference. > >I dimly recall that the moon landings were on GMT (not the same as >UTC), >for example. > >-- >Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will >suffer." -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: