Timezone translations

[Peter Ilieve]

On 6 Jun 2005, at 03:57, Robert Elz wrote:

> Even as just friendly info, zone names help rather than hinder only in
> those locations (countries really, though Europe might count as a  
> country
> for this) where there are multiple timezones - in others, the time  
> is just
> the time, and has no name at all.

Spot on. That's why I struggled to understand the concept of generic
time, let alone put a name to it. As Clive Feather writes elsewhere,
there is no generic name for the time used in the UK.


         Peter Ilieve        peter at aldie.co.uk