[plug] Fooling around with locales, timezones and other magic

[Bernd Felsche]

On Friday 02 April 2004 10:42, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:49:59AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > Received the following today; unfortunately.

> But on the other side of the planet, today is still tomorrow (meaning
> that it is yesterday).
>
> In other words:
> > EFFector    Vol. 17a, No. 1    April 1, 2004          donna at eff.org
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Just for those that are getting confused.  I, for one, am getting sick
> of the April Fools thing.  Someone needs to expand the "before noon"
> rule to handle timezones correctly.

More complicated than that... it's cultural. In Germany, you have to
be on your toes all day.

Back in 1993, I was visiting ze olt country and their national
broadcaster had a news item in their a.m. bulletin with followups
throughout the day.

Germany had recently chanegd post codes to 5 digits and some bright
spark at their Telekom had allegedly come up with the scheme of
unifying the two codes to make the postal codes into phone area
codes. All the elements of credibility in that one. Had the rellies
fooled. I just sat back and watched it unfold while they debated the
relative merits... in the afternoon when I saw the headlines I
couldn't take the tension any more and burst out laughing. It wasn't
until the late night news bulletin that they actually believed me.

No fool like an old one.

Oh yeah; the timezone rule would have to have a proper locale
definition. A proper locale definition would be more appropriate.

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