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Subject: Re: O.T. --- Just a Random Thought --- 10/26/2024
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:57:53 +0000
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On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:34:42 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:

> On 2024-10-27, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> What's the point? Pick a time and stick with it!
>
> Agree. We should all go to UCT and be done with it.
>
> Probably a good time (pun intended) for everyone to
> go to 'date.fraction' time as well, i.e.
>
> 0.00 = Midnight UCT
> 0.25 = 06 AM    UCT
> 0.50 = Noon     UCT
> 0.75 = 06 PM    UCT
>
> Just add the fraction to the end of the date,
> i.e. Haloween evening at 6:00 PM would be:
>
> 2024-10-31.750000 EST (0.75 for the 18/24 hours past midnight), or
> 2024-11-01.916666 because if you do not give a time zone, assume UCT,
> so we need to add 4/24 = .166666 for the 4 hours between UCT and EST.


Sorry, Mike, that has no more chance of becoming "popular" than
Esperanto...

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GM