Living on Texas Time

[Loye Young]

On Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:00:25 am 
ubuntu-server-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> 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.
>
You are right. It's 12:00 UTC that's 7 a.m. Texas Daylight Time. and 5 a.m. 
Pacific. Adjust my comments accordingly.

> > 7 a.m. is too early to do anything here on the Tex-Mex border.
>
> Why is that? (Am I missing a joke here?)
There aren't too many morning people in this neck of the woods. Mexicans (97% 
of the population) generally start later in the day but stay up later, by 
about two hours. And yes, it's a bit of an inside joke. We can often tell 
that a gringo is a chilango (someone from out of town) by the propensity to 
start the day early. 

>No matter which time we choose, someone's screwed. It's always night
>time somewhere

As Jimmy Buffet and Alan Jackson observed in that classic of country 
music, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere."

Happy Trails,

Loye Young