Re: time stupidity

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:28 +0000, g wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> <snip>
> > (Basically, UTC
> > is London time with no DST adjustment, give or take a few ticks...).
> 
> for me, here in cst, i have never had a problem of thinking - 6 hours for
> local time and - 5 for dst. once you do it for a while, it is second nature.
> 
> when i had to use msbsos, i always used gmt and disabled dst. even had
> a few people tell me my clock was off. for some reason they had trouble
> understanding why i did not use dst and were more confused when i would
> reply with, 'not every body does'.
> 
> > The only disadvantage is that when you are in Windows, the clock shows
> > UTC.  If you wear a watch, that's not a big deal.
> 
> you wear a watch?

Call me old-fashioned...

> 
> > you'll find yourself several hours early to your appointments.
> 
> being early can in some case, give a good impression. ;o)
> 
> > Clemson University Math Sciences
> 
> math sciences and you have problems with something like time? :o)

Most mathematicians I know are terrible with numbers.

"There are three types of mathematicians in the world: Those that can
count and those that can't."---Anonymous


> 
> 
> - --
> tc,hago.
> 
> g
> .
> 
> in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
> 
> learn linux:
> 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'   http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
> 'The Linux Documentation Project'   http://www.tldp.org/
> 'HowtoForge'   http://howtoforge.com/
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
> 
> iD8DBQFIs/bd+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAvdyAJ9+OzSMESeTyh//v46LfJGaJsWs7gCfeERH
> Nd6UMIwrbKQJDzzWLmbA2Y0=
> =Dt+U
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux