This is definitely an interesting read about the moon getting its own time zone.
It actually makes perfect sense in so many ways. I really hope since the moon time zone won't honor DST(Daylight Savings Time) that this helps us here on Earth get rid of it as well and not honor it going forward.
However, I believe that he is actually from somewhere in the UTC+02 (winter)/UTC+03 (DST) timezone, which includes Eastern Europe (EET), but also Israel (IST), and some others. Forging time zones would be easy — no need to do any math or delay any commits. He likely just changed his system time to Chinese time every time he committed.
Etiquette proposal: if you invite someone from another #timezone to a teleconference, the onus is on you to present all times in their local timezone, rather than your own - that is, the person asking should bear the labor of timezone conversions, not the person being asked.
hmmm... turns out there's a way to temporarily set a timezone for an application on linux. you can use an environment variable TZ.
for example you can use that to force chromium based browsers to use a UTC timezone with TZ="UTC" chromium #privacy#linux
My favourite grand time travel text adventure from the commercial era for sure must be #Timequest , though. It is not bigger, but much more complex than #TimeZone. It is complex and hard for the right reasons. Not by obscuring things and killing the player constantly. But by actually applying time travel logic to build puzzles.
I have found a fascinating new #timezone error mode with Google Calendar auto-adding events from e-mails: It put one into UTC when it should have been GMT+1, even though the e-mail specified places in GMT+1. At least a flight wasn't involved!
Hey, #Gcal users: any suggestions for ways to simplify #timezone selection when creating events? The long list sorted by timezones is worse than useless. I'd love to be able to set five or six defaults, and/or re-sort that list by city-name, rather than zone.