9 Apr
2017
9 Apr
'17
4:42 a.m.
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 <dave(a)horsfall.org> 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? 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.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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