Re:Swatch Internet Time (1998)
by lb1lf on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:50AM
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> Chances of adopting a universal timezone are pretty much nonexistent for political reasons(...)
-I was once told (and found it too amusing to verify the truth of it!) that as GMT took hold as the go-to global time reference, the French grudgingly complied, but referred to it as 'Paris time minus seven minutes and twenty-six seconds' or something to that effect.
-I was once told (and found it too amusing to verify the truth of it!) that as GMT took hold as the go-to global time reference, the French grudgingly complied, but referred to it as 'Paris time minus seven minutes and twenty-six seconds' or something to that effect.