9 Apr
2017
9 Apr
'17
2:09 a.m.
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 15:13:42 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
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?
Clearly UTC, as the name implies.
Greg
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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