Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Microsoft is the center of time
For that matter Google is too. Microsoft is offering a developers webcast and posted the time in PST. For years television has used ET. For those of us not in ET this familiarity has made it easy to convert it in our heads. Other information such as stocks also uses Eastern Time. For those of us not in Eastern Time we would all like to see our time be the time. England claimed that distinction over a century ago with GMT. It is a globally recognized time that pilots and trains use so that as they cross over time zones their schedules are not confused. So how many hours behind is the West Coast from the East Coast. Are all companies going to start doing this? What time zones is China in?
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... China time is easy. It is 12 hours different for Beijing and Shanghai so just change PM to AM or AM to PM... uh wait, I guess it depends on whether you are on DST (no DST in China).
Well, so much for easy.
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