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Open projects and secret plans

Posted Apr 16, 2007 22:30 UTC (Mon) by jdub (subscriber, #27)
In reply to: Open projects and secret plans by roelofs
Parent article: Open projects and secret plans

Being Australian, I am usually more sensitive to the timezone problem (we are from the future), but in this case I just couldn't bring myself to uglify it by adding timezone foo in there. I figure people can click. ;-)

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Time zones are evil, UTC is luverly

Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:01 UTC (Thu) by liw (subscriber, #6379) [Link]

To me, in an announcement meant for a global audience, not giving a time zone implies inconsideration. Not a lot, of course, but enough to be disappointing.

I always assume the default in such announcements is UTC. I'm reading this at about 08:00 UTC, so was excited that I'd learn the secret in an hour. From the comments I learn that the time zone actually is US/Pacific time, so I'll have to wait 8 hours, not one.

I'm an instant gratification junkie. I was promised a hit and then denied it. This little time zone detail is enough to turn me from excited to sour.

Time zones are evil, UTC is luverly

Posted Apr 20, 2007 0:38 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Well, there was a clue: UTC doesn't have AM and PM, so 9am couldn't be UTC.

I agree time zones are evil. I'd like to see not only global announcements made in UTC, but all local everyday timekeeping in UTC as well. Long ago, the convenience of "9am" being the same part of the day everywhere was surpassed by the inconvenience of it being a different moment everywhere.