Timing suggestion
Jul 8, 2015, 11:45 am
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Timing suggestion
Greetings, just a quick suggestion...
At present (08JUL, 16:34 UTC) the following notice is appearing at the top of each FT page:
Whilst advice like this is pretty helpful, and always gratefully received, the timing (or more precisely, the way it is presented) is the issue I have.
Would it not be better to use GMT/UTC/Zulu time, which is the widely accepted way of communicating a time to a world wide audience?
No matter where I am in the world, I keep myself aware of the time differential between where I am and UTC, as it makes it quick and easy to work out, in my head, without having to look things up, precisely when the event is going to occur, and I suspect most frequent travellers would be in the same boat.
As someone who rarely travels to the US, I have no idea of the time difference between the US West Coast and the Australian East Coast, but I know that where I am is UTC+10.
If notices like the one posted showed the time in UTC (or even both times) it would be much easier to be aware of when these things were going to happen and to plan around them.
This is, after all, a worldwide forum, not an American forum.
HTH.
Dave
At present (08JUL, 16:34 UTC) the following notice is appearing at the top of each FT page:
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Would it not be better to use GMT/UTC/Zulu time, which is the widely accepted way of communicating a time to a world wide audience?
No matter where I am in the world, I keep myself aware of the time differential between where I am and UTC, as it makes it quick and easy to work out, in my head, without having to look things up, precisely when the event is going to occur, and I suspect most frequent travellers would be in the same boat.
As someone who rarely travels to the US, I have no idea of the time difference between the US West Coast and the Australian East Coast, but I know that where I am is UTC+10.
If notices like the one posted showed the time in UTC (or even both times) it would be much easier to be aware of when these things were going to happen and to plan around them.
This is, after all, a worldwide forum, not an American forum.
HTH.
Dave
Jul 8, 2015, 7:58 pm
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Jul 8, 2015, 10:37 pm
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Jul 10, 2015, 9:52 am
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