ubuntu-server Digest, Vol 21, Issue 16

[Charliej]

Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:28:52PM -0500, Loye Young wrote:
>   
>> I like the oscillating time idea, but if I could make the world revolve around 
>> me, I would make the early time 2:00 UTC, because 0:00 UTC is 7:00 in the 
>> morning on Texas Daylight Time. 
>>     
>
> You're clock is in serious need of readjustment. Texas is 5 hours behind
> UTC due to DST. That means that 0000 UTC is 1900 (7 pm) Texan time.
>
>   
>> 7 a.m. is too early to do anything here on the Tex-Mex border.
>>     
>
> Why is that? (Am I missing a joke here?)
>   
If you have to ask you have never been to Texas 8-)
>   
>> 0:00 UTC is worse on the west coast (i.e., Silicon Valley and
>> Portland, Oregon), because 0 UTC is 5 in the morning there. 
>>     
>
> Um.. No. :) They're 7 hours behind UTC, so 0000 UTC is 1700 (5 pm) in
> Portland.
>
>   
>>> Aussies would be ok for an early meeting.
>>>       
>> The Aussies, of course, are a double-whammy because not only do they
>> have their night and days messed up,
>>     
>
> They seem to not be the only ones :)
>
>   
>> So the moral of the story is . . . . well, I forgot what I was talking
>> about, but I'm sure I left a point around somewhere. 
>>     
>
> :)
>
> No matter which time we choose, someone's screwed. It's always night
> time somewhere.  Looking at http://tinyurl.com/3dtory ,  2000 UTC (the
> leftmost column) looks like the least inconvenient time for the current
> group of people on the team.
>
>