Re: spoon-discuss: Get Out The Vote

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, ID Scott wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Eric Gerlach wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, David E. Smith wrote:
> > > Votes must be sent by 6 o'clock this evening, Central Time. Adjust as
> > > needed.
> > Sorry Dave, but unless where you are you don't have Daylight Savings Time,
> > it's 7 o'clock.  If I'm not mistaken, CST is UTC-6, CDT is UTC-5.  For
> > those of you in EDT you've got until 8 :)
> >
> > I think we should use internet time: http://www.swatch.com/  It is now
> > @846 :)  (Also check http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/worldtime/)  Well, maybe
> > that's not quite as good an idea as it orginally sounds... perhaps I'll
> > propose it and we'll see what happens :)
> >
> IIRC, this nomic in fact runs on UTC, which bears a significant
> resembalence to GMT, neither of which are aflicted with summer time...

Yes, that's true, but when Dave says "Get your votes in by 6 o'clock
Central", he's converting to local time.  And that conversion changed
recently from Standard to Daylight.  So the nday (and the nweek) cycle at
7 o'clock CDT (UTC-5) and 8 o'clock EDT (UTC-4).

Bean