... Adjusting the definition of the second would: a) be a really big deal because of the knock-on effect on all the other SI units and derived standards and b)...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 3, 2002 8:00 pm
[2002-Jul-03] I have recently started a discussion in the HTML forum located at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm#msg1>. One or two people in...
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John Walker
jfwalker@...
Jul 3, 2002 8:17 pm
Hello everybody! I have done a Flash ISO8601 date/time format (.fla file) available at: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Utilities/Time/ISO8601D-John_Wal- ...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 4, 2002 1:31 pm
U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department What is Universal Time? The times of various events, particularly astronomical and weather...
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cool_badger_uk
Jul 4, 2002 9:37 pm
Instead of having lots of people thinking of time (in particular seconds) in different ways would it not be easier to define different meanings for the word...
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Arthur Lawrance
g3rzv
Jul 4, 2002 10:04 pm
... An excellent idea Joe. I've been using one of my own for years. It's called 'Justa second' Very handy! Arthur A. Lawrance. -- In a networked world without...
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Stephen Colebourne
stephencoleb...
Jul 9, 2002 10:11 pm
Hi, As part of the www.joda.org implementation of ISO dates, I have been looking at how to add support for TimeZones to the ISO standard. The standard only ...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 10, 2002 1:24 am
On 2002-Jul-09 Stephen Colebourne wrote(>): [2002-Jul-10] ... That is correct. ISO 8601 is for Numeric formats, which is why it also does not support the month...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 10, 2002 1:24 am
[2002-Jul-10] I have recently started a discussion in the HTML forum located at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm#msg1>. I am still waiting for...
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Pete Forman
pete_forman
Jul 10, 2002 8:15 am
... The timezone name has a different purpose. It serves as an input to a date generator, typically via an environment variable. The output should still...
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Ed Davies
edavies971
Jul 10, 2002 1:06 pm
... 2002-07-10T02:24 g1smd@... replied (#): # These names come from ISO 9945, and are for an entirely different # application altogether. These names...
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Ed Davies
edavies971
Jul 10, 2002 1:06 pm
Following on from the comments on local timezones and the recent thread about leap seconds I've been thinking about how a "central" source of information about...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 10, 2002 3:04 pm
It would be big help for my application, if ISO would standardize the time zone codes in the half dozen countries that have multiple time zones, considering...
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laartphoto
Jul 11, 2002 4:32 pm
The standard for timezone should be the +/-HHMM that is in the standard. If you want to use names for your personal use go ahead, you can use your own names. ...
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Stephen Colebourne
stephencoleb...
Jul 11, 2002 5:56 pm
Thanks for the interesting answers so far. Let me explain a little further. What I am struggling with most is that the ISO standard includes an optional time...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 12, 2002 1:20 am
On 2002-Jul-10 Ed Davies wrote(>): [2002-Jul-12] ... This is referred to in those Chris Newman documents that I mentioned earlier. I also gave the URLs for...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 12, 2002 1:20 am
On 2002-Jul-10 hjwoudenberg wrote(>): [2002-Jul-12] ... This won't be true when the Eastern European states, or Finland, or Turkey join the EC. What then? You...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 12, 2002 1:20 am
On 2002-Jul-11 Stephen Colebourne wrote(>): [2002-Jul-12] ... This is why: 2002-06-20 20:00:00 is a local time at an unknown location. 2002-06-20...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 12, 2002 6:43 am
I have a Internet application? Would like to know the UTC offset. Usually have the server domain. The domain code is the ISO 2 character country code. (xx) ...
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laartphoto
Jul 12, 2002 6:15 pm
What's your point? I don't see that you've actually stated a solution, just restated the problem. 8601's +/-HHMM meets all the requirements of the problem... ...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 12, 2002 8:31 pm
In a message dated 7/12/2002 1:16:22 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Tell me how you find this +/-hh:mm to use it? If you want the time in Zone-1 Russian how do...
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Stephen Colebourne
stephencoleb...
Jul 13, 2002 10:16 am
From: <g1smd@...> ... OK, so this is partly terminology. Z/HHMM is specifying a time zone OFFSET, not a time zone. For a pure computational system that...
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laartphoto
Jul 13, 2002 7:26 pm
... If you want the time in Zone-1 Russian how do you find the UTC offset? I find it using the code ".ru;z1t" ... You don't "find" anything. "Finding" implies...
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g1smd@...
g1smd_amsat_org
Jul 14, 2002 5:30 pm
[2002-Jul-14] There is some useful stuff emerging in the discussion at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm>. In particular, one person has written...
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Martin Schröder
oneiros_de
Jul 14, 2002 8:59 pm
... It's even false today. We have UTC-0100 (P, SP), UTC (GB, P), UTC+0100, UTC+0200 (FIN, GR). Best regards Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 15, 2002 5:11 am
In a message dated 7/13/2002 2:28:20 PM Central Daylight Time, ... How do you adjust for when it is daylight time?...
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laartphoto
Jul 15, 2002 5:47 pm
<snip> A time zone OFFSET, not a time zone. A time zone IMHO includes the offset and the data and rules to tell me whether it is daylight savings or not. My...
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Ed Davies
edavies971
Jul 16, 2002 1:26 pm
... But this does not encode the rules for start and end of DST. If it did then it would be equivalent to UTC in information content in which case you might...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Jul 16, 2002 2:50 pm
... Instead of shifting the clocks +/-1 hr every 6 mos. or so, split the difference and move them 1/2 hr and keep the same (local) time year round. ;-) -- ... ...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 16, 2002 9:14 pm
In a message dated 7/16/2002 9:50:41 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Good luck....
