[time-nuts] Time-zones and World time..

[Steve Rooke]

2008/11/2 Thomas A. Frank <ka2cdk at cox.net>:
>> But people would get used to it after a while, maybe a generation, and
>> whose to say that the sun should come up at 7am, it's really just an
>> arbitrary concept.
>
>
> In his book "100 Days" (about the 1982 war in the Falklands), Admiral
> Woodward points out that the British forces kept their clocks set to
> Greenwich Time, and shifted their days to match.
>
> Which is to say that they still had breakfast right before dawn, but
> the clock might have said 1000 hours, and dinner might have been
> right after sunset (the Argentine Air Force being limited to daylight
> operations), when the clock might have indicted 2200 hours.
>
> So the numbers on the clock were indeed considered arbitrary; they
> still sync'd life to the sun (for obvious reasons).
>
> It was also helpful, in as much as the higher-ups back in the UK were
> on Greenwich time, so Woodward could stay in sync with their comings
> and goings.
>
> Interesting book, by the way.

My point exactly.

73, Steve
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