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 Does Daylight Savings Time exist in Shadowrun?, A really random thought |
 Mar 17 2007, 08:32 PM
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Free Spirit  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,928 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920  |
Well, jet lag is probably the wrong term. Time lag is probably better. I'm referring to the different times in every city that is easy or west of the point of reference. It might be 12 noon when the person leaves their point of reference, travels west for sixty minutes and arrives at the next town at 12:50 local time. I could almost see the NAN going back to such an idea for time, as they supposedly had a problem worrying about keeping time, but looking up in the sky to see how far the sun has traveled gives a good idea of the subjective local time. |
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Mar 18 2007, 11:24 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
I live in New England. But I have friends in Saskatchewan who don't adjust their clocks for Daylight Savings Time. Aha, this would explain it:
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Mar 20 2007, 09:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 533 Joined: 23-July 03 From: outside America Member No.: 5,015 |
This is already what email programs do. Your computer's local time is set with a UTC offset and the recipient's computer's local time is set with a UTC offset. In your Sent Mail folder the timestamp may be 17:45 and in the recipient's Inbox the same message might have a timestamp of 09:45. Hyzmarca is spot on. In the future, anyone in authority with even the slightest bit of nous will abolish timezones and daylight savings. The whole world will run on UTC because as a race, we are decreasingly confined by our environment, and are increasingly defining our environment ourselves. In Britain people may have a "9-5" (0900-1700) job in the Autumn, Winter and Spring and a 8-4 (0800-1600) job in the Summer. Australians would work 2200-0600 on the East coast, etc. If you want to have your international conference with your colleagues you just say "let's meet at 1700" and everyone knows exactly what time that is - none of the present-day faffing around with "Do you currently have daylight savings? By how many half-hours? And what's your UTC offset?" Amazingly enough when I try to arrange to meet to chat with people online at a specific time, many don't even know what their UTC offset is. Establishing timezones may have been "comfortable" when established, because it maintained the tradition that "midday" should be round about lunchtime and occur some time after the clock's hour hand points to 12 - but in an increasingly global world they are an unnecessary complication. |
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