Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Re: [BLUG] Linux Format issue 116 available for free

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Simón Ruiz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Ben Shewmaker <ben@shewbox.org> wrote:
>> Isn't UTC also called Zulu time by pilots?  I have a relative who is a pilot
>> and is always saying we should all just move to Zulu time.
> And, with all the commotion that Daylight Savings Time changes cause,
> I'm sure a proposal to move everyone to Zulu time would be a big hit
> in political circles. ;-)

Even better would be to move everyone to Unix time, or even better yet
International Atomic Time, which doesn't have all that pesky leap second
stuff. Then we just attach some large nuclear rockets to Mount Kilimanjaro
and slow down the rate of Earth's rotation for a nice even metric day of
100000 seconds.

-fenn

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