[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 @ 17:07 -0400, der Mouse said:

> >>> Even in the military a lot of people refuse to use zulu time.
> >> But is that because of anything inherent to it, or because they have
> >> to also live in a world that tries to be within an hour or two of
> >> matching up local solar noon with 12:00?  I suspect it's the latter.
> > No, I am talking about cases where they really are supposed to be
> > using zulu, mostly aboard ships at sea.
> 
> But they still live, at other times in their life, on
> approximately-solar time, and are accustomed to that.  If they were to
> live long periods - multiple years - on fixed time, that would be a
> fairer comparison.

If it is a requirement to operate in zulu, I don't really give a damn
what they'd like or what they find convienient.

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