>>>Tonight at 8 Eastern Time on the History Channel:
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http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/perl/search.pl%3Fword%3DIraq>>
>>So far, I found the programs on the History Channel very interesting. But damn it, why can't those channels put the times on their Web-site in UTC, instead of some arbitrary time zone I can't relate with! (UTC, or GMT, is supposed to be THE "world time").
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>Yeah that is bad. The times they post are Eastern Standard Time in the US which is 5 hours earlier than GMT. That particular show is 8:00pm EST and 7:00pm Central which is where I am in Texas.
Thanks for the information. Well, I could look it up in the Windows Control Panel (selecting different time zones), but I still think this is a royal PITA.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)