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Subj: Re: USA TIME ZONES
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>Ian VK5QX doesn't seem to understand the objections to non standard time
>and the reasons for it.
>
>MY clock says 5:45 P.M. as I start to write this and that suits me, though
>it is getting dark early now as winter approaches. 2 AM on the nearest
>Sunday to 21 Oct will be when the clocks go back to GMT.
>
>I have no problem with local time. If I get on an aeroplane to Paris or
>Amsterdam and the flight takes an hour, I am quite alright with arriving at
>the time I took off as CET is 1 Hr ahead of British time. We even put our
>clocks on to BST for us and DST for the rest of EU.
>The French can live by French time and the Yanks by their various regional
>times, I don't care.
>
>What does bother me is world events being quoted in local time.
>Space launches are an example of this.
>If a rocket takes off at 3 pm is it US time, EU time UK local or GMT?
>
>WE invented GMT when we discovered how to measure Longitude eaxactly with
>an accurate clock aboard ship. The ships had to have a standard time so we
>picked on the time at Greenwich, near London and called it Greenwich mean
>Time.
>0ø 0' 0@ Longitude is also at greenwich. All the map references in the
>world are relative to that copper strip running past the observatory at
>Greenwich, no matter where in the world you are.
>
>The French were never happy with this. The reasons go a far way back in
>history, so they invented a time they called Universale Temps Coordon‚es
>(UTC) which is based on Paris, Time Zone Alpha. A couple of letters are
>missed out, so that,by the time you have gone around the world youre
>in the last TZ, they call Zulu or 'z', Greenwich.
>
>
>Naturally we object to being last when we imvented something as big as the
>world's time standard.
>
>The Americans, who are proud of their inventors and think, e.g., that
>Edison invented everything would fight tooth and nail if another nation
>tried to take away standard time if it was based on a line through the White
>House.
>They only give times in their various zones through ignorance,it would
>appear.
>
> That, as far as I'm concerned, is the bottom line.
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