Re: GNOME 1.4 Beta 1

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > Why don't you give those times in a sane timezone spec such as
> > Greenwich Mean Time / UTC? I don't know what Pacific Time is, and I
> > don't see why I should need to ;)
> 
> They told me my talk for NordU Stockholm would be at 16:20 local time.
> Bastards.  I did not know how to convert that to Mexican time either,
> but I figured out easily by doing, oh, like 5 minutes of research.

There's a slight difference between talking about release times for a
project with developers world-wide, and talking about times for a local
event.


> You should not complain about these things.

I think he's entitled to do that. It's named UTC for a reason. Everyone
should know their time zone's difference to UTC, times given in UTC
time, and voilà.


> I do not live in UTC time either and must do a conversion anyways.

Most people don't live in UTC time. It's a standardized reference time
zone, and should be used for that very reason.


Christian