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Tue Apr-22-08 01:23 PM
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7. So what difference does it make if they want to use MMT instead of GMT?

As long as the offsets are shifted to compensate for the longitudinal change, it ought to be transparent to users. If GMT-8 translates into MMT-13 or whatever, who cares? For that matter, maybe the Catholics would like to use Vatican Mean Time, and Jews could go to Jerusalem Mean Time, and so on. As long as we can agree on what time it is from place to place, it's a perfectly harmless extravagance, and maybe it'll help people feel better about their place in the world.

Right?

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