Re: O.T. --- Just a Random Thought --- 10/26/2024

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:34:42 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2024-10-27, jmcquown wrote:
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What's the point? Pick a time and stick with it!

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Agree. We should all go to UCT and be done with it.
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Probably a good time (pun intended) for everyone to
go to 'date.fraction' time as well, i.e.
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0.00 = Midnight UCT
0.25 = 06 AM    UCT
0.50 = Noon     UCT
0.75 = 06 PM    UCT
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Just add the fraction to the end of the date,
i.e. Haloween evening at 6:00 PM would be:
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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