Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Aug 3 21:27:09 UTC 2013
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:12:26PM +0000, Jonesy wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:48:42 +0100 (BST), Paul Sladen wrote:
> > It was begun by somebody on UTC-0700 (West Coast USA) time.
>
> What is "UTC-0700 (West Coast USA) time"?
> I know Californians function on an entirely
> different planetary perspective, but . . .
Seems an entirely consistent way to describe the current timezone in
effect on the US west coast, that is, Pacific Daylight Time. Remember
that UTC remains the same regardless of daylight savings, so the west
coast is UTC-8 in winter and UTC-7 in summer.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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