The seconds and time zones

[stephen barncard]

Did anyone comment on Mark Waddingham's time solution using iRev?

http://runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue71/newsletter2.php

I thought it was brilliant.

Lots of great example stories in the issues of revUp. Unfortunately, they
are not indexed or searchable, and it's a bear trying to find an old
article. I only found this as it was deep within my own bookmarks.
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2010/1/26 Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. Landman Gay
> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> > Bernard Devlin wrote:
> >>
> >> I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life
> easier.
> >>
> >> I was sure she had recommended internet date.
> >
> > Nope, it was Richard. But I guarantee that anything Sarah or Richard says
> > about time calcs is correct. ;)
> >
> > Regarding the seconds: when I was hosting the scripting conferences I
> used
> > to announce the time of the next meeting in seconds. I'd post the seconds
> to
> > the list and anyone who wanted to attend would convert it to their own
> time
> > and see just when they needed to be online. That was Sarah's idea and it
> > worked just great. There was something satisfying also about using Rev to
> > figure out when to meet to use Rev.
>
> This is all good to know.  So, generally the seconds can be used, but
> there might be the most exceptional circumstances to do with daylight
> saving and reboots (and in cases where the international time at which
> something happened is so important than maybe one ought to be using an
> external source like Jim suggests).
>
> Good to know.
>
> Bernard
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