On Tue 29 Jan 2008 at 04:26:04 +1100 Steve W. Jackson
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Arfur
> Moo <arfur_moo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> I was mildly surprised yesterday to find that when I experimented by
>> creating a second user's account and setting that account's time zone
to
>> GMT (= UTC) my first account's time zone followed suit.
>>
>> Is there a way to divorce one account's clock from another account's
>> clock in the one computer? Or is that a trick whose time will come to
>> Cupertino all in good time?
>
> Since the computer can be in only one location, and therefore one time
> zone, at any instant, I don't see it as likely to ever be a sup****ted
> feature. I'm a little curious why you'd be the least surprised by such
a
> situation as exists on all systems I've ever encountered.
>
Thanks for the thoughts, Steve. Oh, well. At least I can change the whole
computer's time-zone setting just by pressing buttons, without moving the
computer and myself to another part of the world.
--
Arfur Moo
Ugga, reclining pensively in a stone-and-thatch hut one evening after a
hard
day's work moving rocks from one place to another: "Hey, Ooga, I've got
this
idea for a flat moon-shaped device with a hole in the middle. We thread
two
or four of these devices onto horizontal pegs on either side of a sledge
so
that each device is free to turn on its own hole when the sledge is pulled
along by a person or by a beast of burden. It'll mean that the sledge
runners
won't scrape along the ground, so the sledge will move with even less
effort
than when we use tree-trunk rollers."
Ooga: "Ooh, I've never heard of anything like _that_ before. I don't think
the idea has legs at all. I can't think why anybody would need it. Sledge
runners or tree-trunk rollers have always done the job admirably."
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