Correct way to write 24 hour-time? Decimalpoint too.

"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 21:32:48 GMT) it happened "daestrom"
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"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 10:15:53 -0400) it happened krw
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 15:32:35 +0200) it happened Charles
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:17:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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Wel, i did some introspection, as European, if in the Netherlands at
say 16:48h somebody askes you 'what time is it' (in Dutch: Weet U
ook
hoe laat het is?), I would reply with '12 voor 5' (12 to five).
Because of the context people usually KNOW if it is morning or
evening.

Maybe - but you wouldn't do that on the phone with someone calling
from
"het buitenland" :-)

C.

We should all change to UTC 24h clock.
And drop the anual time shifts for summer and winter time.
You would get used to it fast.....

...and throw away 6B biological clocks?

Earth is only so big.

Bit it's sooo round and only half of it lit up.

Yes that is the problem, I have a little program 'kworldwatch' (Linux)
that displays a worldmap and shows where it is still light.
A watch with a function like that (when all is UTC) would make sense.

OTOH when you call your boss from the 'other side', you get a tape
that says: 'office hours from ww:xxh to yy:zzh', or he will use some
sleepy bad language, or he will be happy with the new contract.

So someone in Sydney might have office hours of 00:00h to 08:00h UTC and
in
London 08:00h to 16:00h UTC and NY office hours would be 13:00h to 21:00h
UTC. How is that less confusing??


But in case of 'events' (phone conferences for example, meetings, etc..)
it would make a lot of sense.
And that annoying updating the watch on the plane stuff would be gone.


Okay, then when you land, the first thing you ask at the airport is, "What
time to people here eat their noon meal, and when is 'normal' working
hours?". The answer might be, "We tend to eat lunch about 20:00 and the
bank is open from 17:00 to 01:00."

Yeah, that's a *lot* more convenient than resetting your watch..... *NOT*

daestrom

You have not travelled a lot right?
I have, and opining times, special holidays, local ways of doing things
differ a LOT all over the world.
And if you have a problem with day and night, there is this big nuclear
powered indicator light in the sky.

Your solution doesn't solve any of those problems though. When communicating
between time zones, the sun is a poor indicator of who is working when etc.