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I believe that the CIA using open technologies such as a wiki or a blog only shows the strength of sharing. I don't think this is new info. Someone was fired from the CIA a while ago for blogging about torture. So, even though they got the open software, it seems like they still don't now how to use it correctly.

They have their own classified wiki? I wonder if it has different levels of classification. Like, you can see this post, but your login doesn't have clearance for this post.

Anyway, I say go open source community! You are making the world better.

I'll forgo my thoughts on the 9/11 cOmmission report, only to say that today is 1911 days since the attack.

depends on how you define "working hours" this may help you http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n= 176

Which means there should be a 16 qbit machine by 2025, the 32 qbit machine by 2045... hmm. How unhelpful.

Check this out:
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If I were to have my way, DST should be in winter not summer, so when I am going home, the sun is still up, and it is not dark.

Failing that, let us unify time across the whole world. UTC would be the time everywhere, anywhere, any time of the year. It would be hard when setting up appointments and such, but we are in a mess anyway.

I have to use a tool like Time And Date to know what time it is in a city I am calling.

As someone living in Ontario, this is yet another fine mess we got ourselves in, in the name of trade and economy.

As others have pointed out, we do trade with China and Europe and they are not on the same zone we are in.

UK is on British Summer Time which is GMT+1. i.e. He/she thought it was noon at 11GMT.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n= 136

US should reaffirm its innovation and move out of the old systems, like the metric one. They should break up the day into 100 hours instead of stupid 24. Potential benefits:

Why don't we all just go to Internet Time? We will just get used to it eventually. The only thing I can't figure out about it is why it does not have decimal points for finer timing.

...written here.

Well, in fact it was a wednesday.

EDT is basically EST.

Eastern Daylight Time (UCT -4)

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/t imezones/na/edt.html

posting this anon because it's so obvious it'd be karma whoring not too. let's see, a google for "IST time zone" produces this

You are a stupid fuck, aren't you? http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

April 13, 2029 will be a Friday, but Good Friday 2029 will fall on March 30.

So you go to when-the-heck-will-the-sun-be-up-at-this-point-in- the-world.com as you must do with every phone call you make, because there is no way of telling when sunrise or sunset is at any point of the world with this new time system, but you are lucky enough that 1800 World Time where you live just so happens to be right at nightfall. Not too early and not too late to make a phone call.

You find out from this website that your friend will not be awake at this time. It is 1800 World Time there as well, but they are asleep as it is 3 AM in their local time.

Even worse, let's say you forget to convert the time, call, and wake your friend up at 3 AM, thinking that they would be awake.

Now compare it with this scenario...

It's 6 PM your local time. You want to call your friend in Japan. You convert your time to the time in Osaka, Japan by going to a site that actually exists and has a shorter URL to see what time it is where your hypothetical friend lives. You find out that it is 3 AM there. You decide not to call after all.

Which is simpler? Sure, from a business perspective, it is somewhat easier to arrange meetings, as you can agree to meet at 1800 WT and you would both be on the same schedule. However, scheduling meetings requires the same amount of work, as you still have to consult some form of chart or converter to figure out when business hours are. Our current form actually FORCES you to consult a chart, which is a Good Thing, as it forces you to know when sunrise is. From this, you can guess what a person is currently doing and where they are.

Oh, and let's not forget that in most places, the date would actually change in the middle of the day. That is to say, at noon you might have to write a different date for papers then what you wrote at around 9 o'clock. With our current time system, the date changes when we are asleep (or fixing that last bug), and therefore goes by unnoticed either way.

Oh, and let's say that some countries actually adopt a world time while other countries continue to use local time. That would not only defeat the entire purpose of using world time in the first place; it would divide the world even further apart!

If your friend still needs proof, set all his clocks to Greenwich Mean Time.
Oh; don't tell him about it.

In fact, if anyone thinks that having World Time is a brilliant idea, then feel free to experiment by changing your clocks around to match GMT. Have fun setting your alarm clocks to wake you up at 3 AM to go to work.

After a few days, you may start to feel a bit strange. You may even feel that you should set your clocks back to local time. This feeling is your sanity returning. I recommend embracing it, lest it flees from you again and you get the brilliant idea to replace the Gregorian calendar with something even less functional....

• wikipedia explaination
• Time and Date explaination

• What Is the First Day of the Week?

  The Bible clearly makes the Sabbath the last day of the week, but does not share how that corresponds to our 7 day week. Yet through extra-biblical sources it is possible to determine that the Sabbath at the time of Christ corresponds to our current 'Saturday.' Therefore it is common Jewish and Christian practice to regard Sunday as the first day of the week (as is also evident from the Portuguese names for the week days). However, the fact that, for example, Russian uses the name "second" for Tuesday, indicates that some nations regard Monday as the first day.

  In international standard ISO-8601 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has decreed that Monday shall be the first day of the week.

So, actually, it depends rather on you (your beliefs) and how the people from your country choose to go ... BTW, here's a helpfull link to discover who choose what :)

Click on a city in your area on this site: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html? continent=namerica The page for each city lists the coordinates.

And then there's the fact that the sun does not necesarilly shine for one half of a day (day being one complete revolution of the earth around its axis, not sunrise -> sunset... erk.)

Where I live (Milwaukee, WI) sunset can be as early as 4:20 PM on the winter solstice and as late as 8:35 PM on Summer solstice (Central Standard Times, I believe.) I'd think that right before sunset the clock would read 6:00PM, so that's over an hour and a half off.

And then there's the fact that the sun does not necesarilly shine for one half of a day (day being one complete revolution of the earth around its axis, not sunrise -> sunset... erk.)

Where I live (Milwaukee, WI) sunset can be as early as 4:20 PM on the winter solstice and as late as 8:35 PM on Summer solstice (Central Standard Times, I believe.) I'd think that right before sunset the clock would read 6:00PM, so that's over an hour and a half off.

it's friday, cut me some slack :D i'm in amerika and it's only thursday you insensitive Kamchatkan clod!

But why only have one birthday a year. Later this year we have 7,000,000 minutes old and next year there is 5,000 days old to celebrate.

More useless date facts available here.

Terrific, the 25th is only TOMORROW.

However, the British (at least Londoners) are less than three hours away from tomorrow.

Then you've never found timeanddate.com

Not right now it isn't. The British also observe daylight savings time.

wow, so words are in fact defined by the dictionary, rather than the speech community that uses them?

The problem here is that there are in fact two communities using these terms: there are the professional cybergeek types, who actually know something about the field, and there are the unwashed masses of the general public, who are blissfully ignorant. The Geeks distinguish between hacking and cracking; the great unwashed, however, could care less about the subtle-or-not distinction, and use one term for both.

The term "hacker" started out in the computer community a LONG time back-- I recall reading history pieces that date the term to the 60s. It predates the Google USENET archive, anyway. However, the semantic distinction between hacker and cracker within the Geek community clearly does not predate that great repository of asbestos suppositories.

The earliest post archived at Google using both the terms "hacker" and "cracker" was on September 15, 1983. This was apparently in response to a news piece on CBS news on roughly Wednesday the 14th, although there is evidence of at least something being earlier. While I do not remember the CBS news piece, it was most likely prompted by a Hollywood turkey released around then.

When the news media presented this little petri-dish culture to the great Unwashed, they made one mistake. They heard, "someone who breaks into systems is a hacker", and reported "a hacker is someone who breaks into systems". It's a category error fallacy, or perhaps a definition fallacy, but who expects logical thought from a reporter?

Anyway, my point is: the hacker community did not make a clear semantic distinction of "cracking" until after the term "hacking" was exposed to the public, and that at the time "hacking" was still a correct term describing the activity, albeit one that included many other different activities as well.

Hey, this looks like a legit article. What's up with that? But it's April 1st according to Slashdot, since it's on GMT. Maybe that will be /.s April Fools joke, no April Fools articles?

Slashdot is on GMT and this was posted at 22:58 GMT and right now it's 23:22 GMT so we still have a few more minutes before official April 1st as far as Slashdot is concerned. However, it is already April 1st where the story originated (Israel).

Just in case others got misled by the general press reports: The MSBlast (and its two known variants) worm attack against WindowsUpdate.com will really start at 4 a.m. Pacific Friday (Redmond time). As noted in this News.com piece the widely-reported "midnight" is really "when a PC clock shows midnight" -- whenever Friday becomes Saturday, starting across the International Date Line in Anadyr, Russia. Set your TiVos accordingly, assuming you have power.

I think everyone has told you how that post was.
But if anyone is looking for conversions thenthis link should help out

http://www.timeanddate.com/ is pretty useful. It seems to have worldwide info, but I can only vouch for it's usefulness in the US.

Smooth integration of all time functions without dumb limitations...

It has to do all the screwed up implementations of DST and interoperate between them.

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/ds t20 00b.html

It also has to be able to handle situations where people's days vary, in a variable way... For example... I'm in North America, somebody looks at my calendar and wants to book a conference with me in Europe. I should be able to indicate that I will be working from 9-5 in a different time zone for that particular week. It should not tell them they cannot book because I am not working those hours.

Another useful feature might be to see meetings from the perspectives of all the people involved. International teleconferencing needs this sort of thing... to be able to see that you're booking at 4:00pm in Germany while it's noon in New York.

(I think... I'll have to check my calendar on that one)

There's a very good World-Wide countdown clock at Time and Date (they also have a non-java version). The year 2000 starts in the Christmas Islands less than seven hours from the time of this posting.

For those who are sticklers for detail, they also have a countdown to the new millenium :-)

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There's a very good World-Wide countdown clock at Time and Date (they also have a non-java version). The year 2000 starts in the Christmas Islands less than seven hours from the time of this posting.

For those who are sticklers for detail, they also have a countdown to the new millenium :-)

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There's a very good World-Wide countdown clock at Time and Date (they also have a non-java version). The year 2000 starts in the Christmas Islands less than seven hours from the time of this posting.

For those who are sticklers for detail, they also have a countdown to the new millenium :-)

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Someone must be running a world time clock on their desktop who can quickly post times around the world that correlate to 12.00 PST?

Here's a web site that does time conversions:
http://www.timeanddate.com/wor ldclock/fixedform.html

Here is a link to times around the world at noon today, PST

joe

Someone must be running a world time clock on their desktop who can quickly post times around the world that correlate to 12.00 PST?

Here's a web site that does time conversions:
http://www.timeanddate.com/wor ldclock/fixedform.html

Here is a link to times around the world at noon today, PST

joe