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"Pacific +1"? That's like GMT -7 or GMT -8 depending on whether Daylight
Saving Time is in effect. I've never heard of using a "Pacific" offset.
I prefer the GMT offset with a location included. When I looked for the
time in Amsterdam, I didn't know the offset, so I needed to find the time by
city. Once I know the offset, then I prefer to use that.
The Windows time zone application, as with many applications, uses both an
offset and a city, which I prefer.
Then of course, math is a requirement for using GMT. When I learned that
Amsterdam was GMT +1 and California was GMT -8, I called my puppy's breeder
around 1:00 AM their time, because I thought they were only 7 hours later.
They said that they stay up late, so 11 PM was not bad, but 1 AM? Oops.
Lauren
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> ] On Behalf Of Gordon McLean
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:18 AM
> To: 'Lin Sims'; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Usability poll: Picking timezones
>
> Location name everytime.
>
> As a non-US resident any time I get the "Pacific +1" stuff
> I'm lost. Gimme
> cities that I can at least look up in a map and it's much friendlier
> (Windows does it this way for, I'd guess, that very reason).
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
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> Behalf Of Lin Sims
> Sent: 24 November 2008 16:12
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Usability poll: Picking timezones
>
> If you had a choice of selecting a timezone from a list
> sorted by location
> name or GMT offset, which would be easier for you to use?
> Assume that you will not have be able change the sorting
> order as you please
> (and acknowledging that many or maybe all OSs sort by GMT offset).
>
> Thanks.
>
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