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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by the_watcher on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:48PM (#12895963)
No, if someone tells me it is 10 am in Italy, I know what time it is there. If you tell me it's 17:00 UTC, I have no idea what that is without looking it up.
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Re:Time to Dump Time Zones by lmm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:46AM (#12898908)
> if someone tells me it is 10 am in Italy, I know what time it is there.

Right, but they've still had to look it up. And if they looked it up last week, they'll be wrong this week.

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