Re: OT: timezones
Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:36:25PM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
>> michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:55 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
>>
>> >> And now the funny bit: since I looked at that stuff, I customized my Gnus
>> >> mail client to show me your guys offset from UTC in the summary buffer,
>> >> as specified in your Date mail header. So e.g. this thread looks like this
>> >> in my summary buffer:
>> >>
>> >> michael 06.04.05:00:06 +01 timezones
>> >> Clive Menzies 06.04.05:00:18 +01 Re: timezones
>> >> michael 06.04.05:00:38 +01 Re: timezones
>> >> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:50 +02 Re: timezones
>> >> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:28 +02 Re: timezones
>> >> Clive Menzies 06.04.05:00:56 +01 Re: timezones
>> >> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:01:16 +02 Re: timezones
>> >> roby 06.04.05:15:41 -04 Re: timezones
>> >> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:40 +02 Re: timezones
>> >>
>> >> and, as your mails arrive, without even looking into them I can see what your
>> >> timezones are and where you're likely from (see that column with +/- UTC offsets).
>> >> Michael apparently is BST, I'm CEST, and you are EST with DST. So, presumably,
>> >> Michael is from the UK, I'm anywhere from continental Europe, and you anywhere
>> >> from the US East Coast. Now, is this fun or what? :)
>> >
>> > More exactly, I guess, you can tell what timezones the mailers we're
>> > using are ;)
>> >
>> > eg between my mails above I changed my clock settings (see prior emails)
>> > which doesn't show up since i was using a web mailer on another
>> > machine....
>> >
>> >
>> > Michael the pedant
>>
>> Hehe, sure. Also, as timezones mostly don't distinguish latitude, my guesses are
>> rather vague of course. So if Roby's name was actually Alejandro, I'd still
>> have to look into the mail to see how good his English is to take an educated
>> guess about his origins - without doing an whois on his ip of course, which I
>> consider to be brute force and rather distasteful :) . Anway, it's those little
>> extras which make digging through mailing lists, or news groups for that matter,
>> even more pleasing for me ...
>>
>> Regards, Bruno the fuzzy.
>>
>
> I know that New Zealand obseerves summer time, but for their summer which is the
> opposite time of year from where I am in USA. I suppose that other countries in
> Southern Hemisphere do also. So if your attension span is long enough, you can
> infer north/south hemisphere. And, perhaps equitorial region as there is little
> justification for the summer time convention within the tropics.
Good remark. I admit having been focussing on the northern hemisphere, and the
western part either (I recently correctly guessed a mail coming from Hongkong, though).
E.g. properly understanding the Australian zones alone is a bit of a task, and looking
above at my UTC offsets you'll see that I intentionally left out the half hours,
which is a clear indicator of how a superficial guy I am. But consider all that
just postponed, please, as for being able to spiritually and truly embrace the entire
globe I still have to mumble some of my favourite mantras :) (and maybe have to go
into even more detail, too ... )
Regards, Bruno.
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