Miles O'Neal wrote:
> John Summerfield said...
> |


> |10:30 [summer@numbat ~]$ date
> |Mon Nov 10 09:46:13 WST 2008
> |09:46 [summer@numbat ~]$
> 
> John (and everyone else), "just plug "time zone calculator"
> into the search field of your favorite web search, and you'll
> find tools galore for this.
> 
> Just plug in the time Troy gave, along with either CST or
> America/Chicago or US Central, or whichever variant your
> chosen calculator provides, and there you are.

Surely, if people wish to communicate a time to others across the world, 
it's sensible to do so in UTC. I think most people can convert UTC aka 
GMT times to their own, and if they can't do that then the probability 
of them coping with any other foreign time is pretty low.


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Cheers
John

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