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>>Here in L.America, channels often give times for Mexico and Buenos Aires (two different times). To "add insult to injury", some of these times are not constant, but use D.S.T. (may the fool who invented D.S.T. ... well, never mind).
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>Hilmar,
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>Here in Canada we have 6 time zones. I have Satelite TV. If I see an ad for something I'd like to see. I am forever calculating what time it will be on in relation to what zone I'm in.
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>Mike
Yes, right. I insist, they should give times in what Germans call "world time" (UTC). Thus, I would only have to subtract 4 hours, you 5 hours (or whatever), etc.
With the current system, instead of having this one simple conversion, we have to do all sorts of conversions.
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)
