[SBE] Time standardization idea
Ron Castro
ronc at sonic.net
Fri Mar 20 20:22:49 EDT 2009
Folks like the ones in the east who call us here in California at 5:30 am
because they think it's three hours *later* out here? Good luck!
Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC
N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "k7cr" <k7cr at blarg.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SBE] Time standardization idea
> Adding to the problem is the issue of daylight time and last years
> changes that have required manual changes to many items.
>
> Thanks Ray for the interesting observation about the FCC.
>
> I agree that getting folks to read clocks is another issue.
>
> cf
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David R. Wilson" <david at wwns.com>
> To: "sbe member discussion mail list" <sbe at sbe.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [SBE] Time standardization idea
>
>
>> The only fly in the ointment is operators that have to read the time.
>>
>> I would much rather go with UTC. It makes life much easier. In a
>> previous job the crew I worked with finished changing all the clocks
>> about 5 months after the time change. It was a major pain finding all
>> of the clocks that needed to be modified.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:39 -0700, k7cr wrote:
>>> You have to wonder why this was not done long ago.
>>> Love it !
>>>
>>> Clay Freinwald
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chris Murray" <crmurray at clearwire.net>
>>> To: "'sbe member discussion mail list'" <sbe at sbe.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:00 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [SBE] Time standardization idea
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I love the idea.
>>> > In fact it would be a no brainer to put a clock at the control point
>>> > of
>>> > the
>>> > station or near the EAS decoder set to UTC time. It would help train
>>> > operators of the amount of shift.
>>> >
>>> > Chris Murray
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
>>> > Cowboy
>>> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:32 AM
>>> > To: rzeigler at krvn.com; sbe member discussion mail list
>>> > Subject: Re: [SBE] Time standardization idea
>>> >
>>> > On Friday 20 March 2009 10:24 am, R. V. Zeigler wrote:
>>> >> What do others on the list think of the idea of the FCC
>>> >> standardizing
>>> >> all times to UTC? All licensed power/pattern changes would be in UTC
>>> >> and
>>> >> EAS messaging could be standardized to UTC. We only change the
>>> >> operator
>>> >> interface to reflect local time, but the equipment would be time
>>> >> zone
>>> >> and DST agnostic in it's actual operation. Off the top of my head it
>>> >> seems like this could be a remedy to a number of problems.
>>> >> Rod Zeigler
>>> >
>>> > Personally, I see no problem with the standard being the current
>>> > standard
>>> > time.
>>> > UTC , standard time, I fail to see a significant difference in
>>> > practice.
>>> > DST, now THAT's a problem no matter how you slice it, and more
>>> > a waste of time in my opinion.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Cowboy
>>> >
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