specific time verification

[Barbara A. Kucera]

I concur!

Barbara
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At 09:22 AM 10/26/2000 -0400, Mark D. Johnson wrote:
>UTC is a great idea.  I was thinking that in the back of my head, but 
>wasn't sure
>about acceptance.  People can always go to a work time clocks page like
>http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/clocks.htm and see UTC and convert to
>local time.  We could have the clocks show all time zones.
>-mark
>
>Don Morton wrote:
>
> > "Mark D. Johnson" wrote:
> > >
> > > Mary,
> > >     Will there be an automated reservation system online in the 
> future?  And
> > > maybe have something that would post the times in all zones?
> > > -mark
> >
> > Thinking back to my military days, one could always adopt posting
> > all times in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated), formerly GMT
> > (Greenwich Mean Time).  Every site would be able to readily
> > determine how many hours they were behind/ahead UTC, accounting for
> > daylight time, etc.  It's actually quite convenient once you
> > know where you are in relation to UTC.  Particularly when AGN
> > sessions become more international, having to convert between
> > the numerous time zones would be a royal pain in the butt.  If
> > sites only have to convert relative to the UTC standard, it
> > will be much easier.  Perhaps now would be the time to adopt
> > something like this?
> >
> > Just my opinion after spending years as a ham operator and military
> > person :)
> > --
> >    Don Morton                     http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/morton/
> >    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
> >    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139

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