Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Connie Sieh wrote:
>>> Thusday morning 2/14/2008.
>>>
>>> The system will not server linux/scientific/ from  05:00
>>> until  08:00  CST.
>>
>> I can relate UTC, aka GMT to my times. What the heck do _you_ mean by
>> CST? In this country, it's GMT+9:30. Or 10:30.
> 
> Sorry,  That is Central Standard Time.
Thanks. We use that term to describe South Australian time, wne it's not 
Central Summer Time.
> 
> GMT - 6
It actually doesn't matter to me, but I think that when one has 
something important to say that it's done in terms _everyone_ 
understands. If I say it's 08:58 WST here, most people will either have 
no idea what mean, or interpret it in local terms.

When someone uses American timezones, the best I can manage is "I know 
it's not our time, and it's not GMT." Atlanta, I recall (from the 
Olympics), is 12 hours away, but I have to think about which day. 
Yesterday, I think.


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