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Subject:Re: Time From:Geoff Lane <geoff -at- GJCTECH -dot- FORCE9 -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:26:34 +0100
15:32 BST on 8 September 1997, Miark<miark -at- MIJENIX -dot- COM> wrote:
>
> Is there an intenational standard for communicating time? I'd like to
> include
> our company's business hours in a user guide but I don't know whether to
> say "weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Central Standard Time," and leave it at
> that, or to say something more for customers on the other side of the
> globe.
Hi Mike,
Writing as one "from the other side of the globe", I have no idea by how
much Central Standard Time (CST) lags or leads Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or
British Summer Time (BST). As a user, I would like to see GMT, i.e.
something to which I can immediately relate. However, I have no idea
whether, like BST, CST 'suffers' from daylight saving. If it does, then
your options are probably limited to CST alone. If not, then please
consider using GMT as well.
HTH,
Geoff Lane (geoff -at- gjctech -dot- force9 -dot- co -dot- uk)
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