1 Jan
2018
1 Jan
'18
6:15 a.m.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, Kurt H Maier wrote:
I am confident ARPANET did not pin time to AEDT. Even
if you go by UTC
you've still got about fifteen minutes to wait for 1 JAN 2018.
So am I, but what reference *am* I supposed to use, FFS? The USA is
several zones behind UTC[*], and almost a whole day behind Australia
(where I live).
My "on this day" policy is to use the local time if it can be narrowed to
a particular zone where the event happened (and if it makes sense); if it
was universal e.g. moon landings then I'll use UTC; otherwise I'll use the
commonly-observed date e.g. the start/end of the world wars.
I'm open to suggestions (including FOAD, in which case I'll simply find
something better to do).
[*]
A lingering gripe that explains my latent anti-Americanism goes back to
when I had to support Uniplus 2.2/2.4 (sorta SysIII-ish) on the WICAT
boxes in here in Australia. At installation time, we had to express the
time offset as hours *west* of GMT; this left me with a lingering belief
that Americans didn't want to be perceived as being backwards (yeah. it
saved an entire keystroke out of the dozens that were otherwise required).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."