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Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 02 Nov 2014, 17:15 ---Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
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I wouldn't normally, but when posting in a thread that bounces around only slightly less than your average pinball machine, sometimes it helps for clarity's sake. Sorry if I've inadvertently caused an issue.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 02 Nov 2014, 15:34 ---Many moons ago when I was kinda doing project management and working with coders in the Philippines, Ukraine and Bangladesh (sometimes all of the above at once), it was a lot easier to set everything up -- meetings, deadlines, etc. -- by GMT than by trying to keep track of everybody's time zones.
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Tell me about it, and at least all those locations are in the Northern Hemisphere:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Oct 2010, 21:12 ---One thing I do find irritating is people who can't (or at least won't) understand time in 24-hour format. Twelve-hour format is fine for everyday, casual use, but not when scheduling events across multiple countries, in several time-zones, with various daylight-saving rules, in hemispheres with reversed seasons so that daylight-saving-time changes go in opposite directions. Frankly, I'd prefer to use a single fixed time reference like Zulu time, so everyone only has to worry about their own single local offset, but no... Instead I'd get e-mails from colleagues in America telling me that some system was going down for maintenance at "12pm EST". In July. And they'd get all butt-hurt when I replied asking: "Do you really mean EST, or would that be EDT seeing as it's your summer? And by the way, is that 12pm noon or midnight?" I mean OK, some of these systems only processed transactions worth millions of dollars an hour, and kept factories running (and workers in jobs) on five continents, so it's not like they were important or anything! EEE-HAH EEE-HAH!
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Grognard:
GMT!
I swear! All maintenance is scheduled by 24H GMT.
don't come clobber me.
I didnt do it!
but if you want to come to the DC Metro area, you're welcome....
but we're all broke as fuck, so you'd probably have to buy your own drinks.
Method of Madness:
That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.
Loki:
*grabs bag of popcorn*
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