Subject: No USA local times. Use Global Time GMT=UTC From: NO_USA_Timezones@ Sender: NO_USA_Timezones@ I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/global_time.txt "Think Global, not Local!" American civilians when publishing times globaly should Not quote parochial Hicksville USA times eg EST, Use GMT=UTC as agreed & used for centuries by global mariners, militaries, aviation, scientists, computer nets etc. Avoid the Many timezone translations only locals & yokels understand: politicians pushed by lobby groups, periodically messing with variant start & end of summer (& occasionaly double summer) time etc, when summer time starts & finishes in each country, northern hemisphere summer being southern winter, (few are brave & scrap summer time, & stick to real solar time) + politicians invent half hour zones (newest N. Korea in 2015) + 40 min. zones (S. Australia), + some islands etc flip to an adjacent timezone, + some big countries (Russia or China ?) use one mega time zone, + usage of inconsistent & overlapping & unrecognised time zone acronyms etc. Tell those who send their local time: Translate it & broadcast GMT=UTC World Time, Leave those receiving to translate GMT=UTC to their recipient local time zones. Think Global, not Yokel ;-) See Also: http://www.berklix.net/time/ http://www.berklix.net/~jhs/txt/timezone.html