Timezones are frustrating and confusing for most people, whether you’re traveling or just trying to schedule meetings for work. And how often I see software where the time is persisted in the local timezone without regard on how difficult it’ll be later on manage. And this is for official timezones, what about the unofficial?
Well, it appears that royalty believes that they can define time to fit their own needs.
He sat at a table in Lord Knollys’s ugly little under the stairs at 3.35 Sandringham time, which was 3.05 GMT. At Sandringham the clocks ran thirty minutes fast to allow more daylight for shooting, as they had in King Edward’s day.
Ridley, Jane, George V, p.392
Nothing like being narcissistic and trying to make the world adapt to you.
Conversely, the Chinese communist party dictated that the entire country is on Beijing Standard Time rather than the five would be more appropriate give its size.
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“TIME” by becosky… is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
