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Ade Lovett ade at lovett.com
Wed Dec 12 07:27:12 PST 2001


On 12/12/2001 08:34, "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> wrote:

> Ade Lovett said:
>> CST is defined as US Central Standard time in more places than I care to
>> recall, being GMT-0600 (not, as previously stated, -0700).
> 
> 6, 7, what's the difference ?

About an hour.  Ask the citizens of El Paso, TX as opposed to the citizen
of, say, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, or (gosh) Houston, TX.

> The points, which you seem to have missed, are:

No, I have not missed them.
> 
> (1) not everybody in the world intuitively knows what "CST" (or "IST", for
> that matter) means, let alone "12/11/2001";

Well, since both CNN and the BBC, along with other news networks, constantly
refer to {Pacific,Mountain,Central,Eastern} {Daylight,Standard} Time, I
think we can say that the denizens of this group can be expected to know
what they mean.  As well as the 'standard US' date notation of mm/dd/yyyy.

If 'everybody in the world' was part of this working group, then things
would be different.

Y'know, if y'all stopped this petty ANSI-committee-esque bullshit, on every
single minor point, perhaps things might move along a little more quickly.


> (2) what on earth is the point in sending out a questionnaire that *MUST
> NOT* be answered for some time ?

To give everyone a chance to do some background reading (if necessary).  Why
not directly ask the WG Chair, or put a a motion of no confidence and take
over the job yourself to handle as you see fit (if you quote 'lack of time'
as an answer, then you immediately disqualify yourself from any kind of
procedural bitching).  I see lots of bickering, but no action.


> Then, combine them into "answers will be ignored if sent before a time on a
> day which take some effort to calculate if you're not in the USA" and it
> becomes annoying.

Well gosh.  That's what computers are for.  Run, do not walk, to your
favorite software emporium, and pick up a world clock.  In addition to your
local timezone, add, say "Houston, TX" as another clock, and it'll be pretty
obvious.  You may even find one with sloppy "6, 7, what's the difference"
fuzzy-matching.

One final thing.. I really, really, recommend getting a PDF reader.
"'Tis the standard to be jolly" and all that.

TTFN.

-aDe

-- 
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
"We are here to preserve democracy, not practice it."
            -- Gene Hackman, 'Crimson Tide'.




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