The "Hughtrain"

[libertango]

Imagine Ashleigh Brilliant getting together with Bill Rotsler, with a big chunk of Doc Searls' DNA thrown in. You'd get the cartoon blog gapingvoid, by Hugh MacLeod.

The one Doc pointed to, that caught my eye:

1. Nature abhors a vacuum.

2. Cluetrain abhors a Gatekeeper.

Right on! Fight the power!

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It's good. Mind you, I think most of my friends have listened to the 9th straight through (I have three versions of it, to include Berstien's An den Freihet recorded live at the Berlin Wall.

But I belong to an odd crowd.

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Oddly the comments left here are recorded at as Greenwich -6 instead of -8.

TK

[drplokta]

If you're on PDT, it's Greenwich -7, not Greenwich -8. GMT does not change for summer time, and Greenwich itself is currently on GMT +1.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

You're right. I just tend to forget, since (barring Arizona, and parts of Indiana [this year] everyplace else here [and oddly, in Iraq] engages in the silliness which is Daylight Saving Time).

TK

[drplokta]

Oh, the UK is on daylight saving time at present. But Greenwich Mean Time isn't affected, even though that means that Greenwich itself is not on GMT for seven months of the year.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I know, what I forget is that GMT is a constant.

The fact of it is, since I have reports to write which require being annotated to the letter code of the timezone the events described took place, I have to keep track of that (right now I'm in S, even though, on a map I live in T).

But, since I wasn't working, I just went by my mental default (i.e. I live in GMT -8) and didn't further ponder.

TK

Time Stamp

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Look again. Your presumably 0317 PDT comment was posted by LJ as being 1717. As it was 1017 GMT at the time, that means comments are coming in as being GMT+7.

LJ timestamps in general are all over the map (as it were). Having been rooting around in the various customization options, there doesn't appear to be any way for a non-specialist user to easily change this. I suspect it hasn't been fixed because of a combination of users not noticing, users noticing but not complaining, and open source programmers thinking fixing this particular problem won't be a big enough source of the "right" egoboo.

Re: Time Stamp

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Oops, again. I saw the 05:17 (a terrible usage, the use of a colon ought to prohbit the use of 05, or 17, but I digress), and assumed it was a.m..

I guess Calif. is it's own little world then.

TK

Re: Time Stamp

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking what's really happening is there's a place in the code that says the time is GMT+7, when it should say GMT-7. I'm too lazy to look around at other LJs just now to see if a +/- flip would explain some of their oddities.

[ckd]

Heh. I have a watch with a regular clockface and an overlaid digital display. Because of the ease of changing the digital, that's the one I switch when I travel or DST starts or ends.

I finally decided to just set the hands to GMT and leave them there.