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Yeah, I see that -- "All Times ET" -- on FOX's MLB schedules as well. Not much help when trying to watch the local game.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
modified 14-Jun-14 14:32pm.
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I used to work for a company that broadcast television to the whole of Europe, Africa and the middle East. Don't talk to me about time zones!!! They were the bane of my life. Because of stupid daylight saving time we were obliged to modify the start of day times for almost every single channel (nearly 100 at that time). Thank goodness for SQL. Made my life so much easier.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Well, what do you think they should use, UTC? Do you honestly believe that anyone except programmers and those living outside of the US even know what UTC is? People in the US probably think UTC is a form of contraceptive.
Marc
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I hate to mention this but I worked on a project where I could never get our American programmers and analysts to fully understand time zones, including UTC (where's that).
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"It's British for GMT"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: "It's BritishForeign for GMT"
FTFY.
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"It's British Foreign Texan for GMT"
Except in Texas, where they use
"It's British Foreign Californian for GMT"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Actually, it's not British. Its French.
Universal Time Coordinated (dumb Frogs can't even get sentence structure correct).
Jim
aka dumb American ham radio operator who, along with 700,000 other dumb American ham radio operators, only uses UTC when logging radio contacts.
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and a every single pilot that ever got a weather briefing... although we tend to call it ZULU
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Except that [generally] GMT gets adjusted for Daylight Savings, UTC does not (at least in my experience - not to say I'm any kind of expert here).
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Nope, GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, and is not adjusted - the UK switches between GMT and BST (GMT + 1) for winter and summer respectively.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Interesting. I'll look into that on our servers. I've seen the GMT reference (yes I know what GMT is short for), but not a BST. but you are right - there is a separate check box for whether to adjust for DST. We have our severs set to UTC for consistency...
Thanks for the info...
Mark
(just a cog in the wheel in Denver, CO)
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OriginalGriff wrote: "It's British for GMT"
You must mean "UTC", SQL doesn't have a GETGMTDATE function. 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I could never get our American programmers and analysts to fully understand time zones
And we wonder why our educational systems are failing. 
I bet they all knew where the Twilight Zone was though!
Marc
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None of them were what you would call stupid, it's just that the whole concept of how to use time zones seemed to elude them. Always baffled me.
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Perhaps it was actually your accent they could not understand. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah most likely; I always wrote my emails in English. 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: ; I always wrote my emails in English.
Yep that's it. Try writing in American next time.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No you mention Twilight Zone to these youngsters today and they just stare uncomprehendingly at you.
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joeller wrote: No you mention Twilight Zone to these youngsters today and they just stare uncomprehendingly at you.
True. I date myself.
Marc
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Need to make them watch more SyFy channel XD
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I could never get our American programmers and analysts to fully understand time zones, irony, that other countries exist, that "America" is a pair of continents comprising lots of countries, that English accents aren't cute (they just don't sound bluddy awful like yankee ones), or that everything that they believe was invented in the US wasn't.
It must be a developer thing, but I hate seeing incomplete statements.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mea culpa. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: UTC
University Town Center -- it's a mall in La Jolla.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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