On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:Teemu Likonen writes:But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important.There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when embedded in text) would transmitted and stored in UTC but displayed according to the locale of the user.Anyone else remember Internet Time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that won't get implemented. Too much inertia.
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