- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:25:45 -0400
- To: John C Klensin <john+w3c@jck.com>
- Cc: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, www-international@w3.org
John C Klensin scripsit: > Indeed. My vague recollection is that, if one picked the right > (or wrong) year, the above might be different, too. I'd have to > go look it up to be sure, but my recollection is also that > Arizona has observed Daylight (aka "War") time in some years. 1944 and 1967: see <http://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/northamerica> for the nitty-gritty. > IMO, this just reinforces my suggestion: be careful about the > words one uses for "Phoenix time", or avoid it entirely in > examples, unless one wants to get dragged into that mess of fine > distinctions and subtle rules. On the other hand, if one wanted > to illustrate the mess as a collection of exceptions and > exceptions to exceptions... +1 -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org The present impossibility of giving a scientific explanation is no proof that there is no scientific explanation. The unexplained is not to be identified with the unexplainable, and the strange and extraordinary nature of a fact is not a justification for attributing it to powers above nature. --The Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "telepathy" (1913)
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