Re: LSE conference call

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 13:26:22 EST


> Last week I went to Arizona from New York. It went like this: Sunday
> morning 1hr forward for DST. Sunday later, 2hr back for central timezone.
> Sunday later 1hr more back, Arizona doesn't do DST, except... Monday, 1hr
> forward again, the Navaho nation in AZ does do DST. At that point I set my
> watch to GMT and told local time by the sun! Oh well, lots of brewpubs,
> it's always time for a beer.

Ah, but assuming that you had a compass to calculate the local time
offset, (ignoring DST), anyway, you could have used that to calculate
the _local_ time without looking at your watch at all ;-). However,
you wouldn't be able to calculate the timezone you were in.

John.
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