[SBE] UTC Time Standard

[k7cr]

Hi Rod - 

I believe that we are all on the SBE List - 

As for using UTC for EAS Events - I feel that getting away from our Standard and Daylight time zones, with occasional variations is a good one.   this way all devices would  be programmed with the same time zone, UTC.   The problem with this is that much of this equipment has interaction with people who are going to have difficulty, in some cases, lots of it!   Look at the confusion that takes place with a one-hour shift when we go back and forth from Daylight-time...A similar thing takes place when you use 24 hour time.    You tell the average person that something will take place at 1800 hours and you are very likely to get a deer in the headlights reaction.   The same argument could be made for using the Metric system. etc.

The problem is, you idea is a great one - if you could overcome the adverse reaction that will likely come.

For that matter - Why not go all the way and change our time keeping to base-10?.   Look what happens today - We have Hours, Minutes, Seconds ...and what happens beyond that - We shift from base 12 to base 10 with 10th's of a second.   Lets not just consider using UTC, but changing UTC to base-10.    For example - 

Midnight would be 0.000 hours
0600 would be 2.5
1200 would be 5.0
1800 would be 7.5
2400 would be 10, or 0.000 depending on how you wanted to look at it.

Each day would have 10 hours
Each hour would have 10 minutes 
etc.

Wait a minute ...It's not quite April yet.

Clay Freinwald


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: R.V.Zeigler 
  To: k7cr 
  Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:24 PM
  Subject: UTC Time Standard


  Clay,
  Mr. Raymond Benedict suggested I run that idea past you in regards to EAS operation. Here is part of an e-mail he sent to me:

    4. Perhaps UTC would be better then local for EAS. I am not sure it is an FCC issue as I don't remember it being in the rules. Before it happens though I recommend having the SBE EAS Committee look at it. Clay Freinwald Committee Chair would be the best person to talk to.
  The initial idea for this came about after our consulting attorney and I went through a rather painful (mental) process of interpreting the PSRA times for one of our AM's.
  If you have no objections, I will send Mr. Benedict your reply from the SBE list.

  Regards,
  Rod

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