[LEAPSECS] Definition of Standard time - Brooks Harris

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Tue Feb 18 08:09:38 EST 2014


On 18 Feb 2014 at 10:13, Tony Finch wrote:


> Depends how much you travel I guess :-) Usual context for the term "local

> time" is when arriving in a new time zone - "the local time is..." - which

> is exactly the ISO 8601 meaning.


...which they tend to announce at the end of flights even if the
flight didn't cross any time zone boundaries, so the local time is
the same as your watch already has if it was set right for the place
the flight started.


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