Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!vpnet!dattier From: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: `GMT' -> `UT' in news header dates Message-ID: <1991Mar29.003719.10237@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 29 Mar 91 00:37:19 GMT References: Organization: VPNet Public Access Unix, Villa Park IL 60181-2206 Lines: 23 peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) wrote in : | Well, one place is obvious... Greenwich, since after all it *does* put | the date line in the middle of the Pacific ocean instead of the middle of | some random country. And since, as others have stated, the earth *is* round, no location is better than Greenwich and therefore the effort of changing all longitudes to accommodate a new baseline isn't worthwhile. I can think of two spots on the earth that are unquestionably worse than Greenwich. One thing I don't get is this: how can calling something based on Greenwich "Greenwich" come off as more Anglocentric than calling something based on Greenwich "universal"? Surely it's a worse deification of Britain to call Greenwich the universe than to call it Greenwich. David Tamkin PO Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us GEnie:D.W.TAMKIN CIS:73720,1570 MCIMail:426-1818 708 518 6769 312 693 0591 "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" mailing list: write flamingo-request@ddsw1.mcs.com