Re: First post of 2008? (Look! Brand new subject! Reassuringly off-topic!)

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

Measuring time is something very different from trying to parameterize 
is on the surface of a sphere(or actually a cylinder) :)
Or, for that matter, labeling time as an offset since the death of a 
character 2008 years ago in a book...

Shane Lee wrote:
> My vote is that the list follows the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC,
> or Zulu) standard that has been adopted worldwide. Most Operating
> Systems today offset UTC by a known amount depending on current
> location. It is the most universally adopted time measurement and is
> good enough for atomic clocks, so it's good enough for me :-D
>
> -Shane
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