Bush Proposes Universal Time Zone

[Subway]

New York, NY - At the United Nations today President George W. Bush announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as the Eastern Time Zone.
The Future?

"It's unfair to the United States that other countries have the advantage of being in tomorrow while the US is stuck in today," said Bush. "If it's 9 PM in Washington D.C., it's already tomorrow in London or Paris. That patently unfair."

Bush continued, "Right now, Americans are losing jobs to other countries whose workforce can give overnight service during their normal daylight hours. We'll level the playing field and keep more jobs in the US with the UTZ."

If all countries agree it would make jet lag a thing of the past, and international callers wouldn't have to worry about waking someone up.

Experts have agreed the the current system is confusing. Some areas use Daylight Savings Time. Others are shifted by a half an hour. It causes unnecessary confusion and is estimated to decrease worldwide GDP by a half of a percent every year.

"Under the Bush UTZ plan, countries could either keep their current schedules and just adjust their clocks, or they could change their whole society to match the new time. But Bush warned against the former option, "It would be very risky for countries to eat lunch at a different time than the US. You are either with us or against us on this."

Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."

Opponents of the plan, which include many prominent biologists, said that it will throw off the normal circadian rhythms that humans have, and that "species with almost human intelligence like dolphins and lawyers will be unduly traumatized by the clock shift."

France, another opponent of the plan, claimed it is too Anglocentric, and should be based on French time. President Chirac did concede that "it wouldn't affect us too much because all our workers stop working at noon anyway."

Whether or not the rest of the world implements the UTZ, Bush plans to have UTZ in place by October in the US. "I get confused when I go from DC to the ranch. I can't remember what time it is. Is it ten? Is it eleven? Under my plan everyone can watch The West Wing at the same time, and those lazy Californians can get up at decent hour like the rest of us."

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Great idea Mr. Bush, I have my best ideas at night anyway.

Fredi

PS: This was a joke if you not realised it anyway.

[solomatrix]

I'm (Indiana)Eastern anyways, we never have DST or timeshifts. I say we go for it just to piss of the french.

[gerbick]

yeah right.

get a friggin' clue.

I guess Bush is the reason why people catch the common cold.

my god. find something new to pick on. It's either Sony or Bush.

[CNO]

Originally posted by gerbick
my god. find something new to pick on. It's either Sony or Bush.

Did you read through the post? It pokes fun at the French too. It's a joke - why the hostility?

[gerbick]

Originally posted by CNO
Did you read through the post? It pokes fun at the French too. It's a joke - why the hostility?

notice, you said hostility. It never entered into this discussion before you stated it.

and besides, 80% of Fredi's posts in the CL are either: Sony or Bush related. I stated it clearly... boring. Find something new. Markp, Aversion, CVO Chris, Hurricane, even Okkid talk about varied items in the CL.

Variety is the spice of life you know.

And besides, I thought French jokes were oft closed items in the CL.

[Subway]

Originally posted by gerbick
and besides, 80% of Fredi's posts in the CL are either: Sony or Bush related.

Oh thx for reminding me, completly forget to post something about Sony:





Fredi

[CNO]

Originally posted by Subway
Oh thx for reminding me, completly forget to post something about Sony:





Fredi

And a mention of Rogotworld (which I think is the other 20%, no?). Go Subway!

[gerbick]

Does this mean I get to delete your 3D forum post? Double posting is really frowned upon here at FK.

you know that

[ViRGo_RK]

Oh, he's asking for it.

DO I here a specific mouse pointer, hovering over a certain button?

*hint, hint*

Now, if I was a jerk, I could scream "Double standard" and ask for this removed, as it's OBVIOUSLY US bashing.

But, I'm not a jerk (or atleast don't think so), and personally, found it a tad ammusing.

But, as gerbick said, it is starting to get old.

[Subway]

Ok, my last 25 posts:

Bush Proposes Universal Time Zone
_ appointing of mods
_ NOOOOooooo they killed my fave game
_ The perfect face!
_ The PSP Concept Project!
_ Sony announced GBA rival, Nintendo shares down by 10%!
_ ***
_ question about blogs :: educate me
_ PGR2 vs. GT4 at E3
_ use IRC? e-mail? :: new virus alert
_ so i saw that matrix reloaded last night...
_ The Latest AI Tech Skills
_ Disney to Finance new Bush-Bashing Documentary!
_ mang? _
_ Help me build your dream cell phone!
_ If you held a conference and no one came, would it still make a noise?
_ ***
_ The Grand What are you thread
_ Apple did it! >1'000'000 songs downloaded in first week!
_ I just saw the Matrix Reloaded!
_ My first real comic girl ever!
_ ***
_ Petition to bring Mac Music Service to Europe and the rest of the world
_ Damn, I love Steve Jobs (Interview)
_ Petition for Macromedia to improve the Macintosh Flash Plugin.

Sony related: 3 of 25 Threads
Bush related: 2 of 25 Threads

A total of 5 in 25 threads --> 20%

Just to prove your 80% wrong, it would be even less if I took the last 100 threads.

Fredi

[gerbick]

80% was a hyperbole. However, literally, you post ad nauseum Bush this, Bush that.

Like I stated, and this is no stretch of the truth.

It's all boring and the same.

oh, and some of your posts were in restricted areas listed above. I'd suggest removing them unless you want to cause curiousity of how to view those posts.

[Subway]

Originally posted by gerbick
80% was a hyperbole. However, literally, you post ad nauseum Bush this, Bush that.

Someone has to do it or the US civilians will get him again with the next election.

Fredi

[flipshark]

There is already a universal time zone used by the USA.
I'm not sure of the name specifically but I think it is called zooloo time and it is used by the military to avoid confusion in strikes and things where time zones are different.

Basically, all soldiers when using zooloo time (again not sure of name) don't need to know the local time, they simply follow zooloo time. So a strike at 0 400 hours could be 4AM in one place 11PM back in the US, etc., etc.,

[Subway]

Or the Swatch time (Swatch beat?) Is anyone really using it anyway?

Fredi

[jamble]

Originally posted by flipshark
There is already a universal time zone used by the USA.
I'm not sure of the name specifically but I think it is called zooloo time and it is used by the military to avoid confusion in strikes and things where time zones are different.

Basically, all soldiers when using zooloo time (again not sure of name) don't need to know the local time, they simply follow zooloo time. So a strike at 0 400 hours could be 4AM in one place 11PM back in the US, etc., etc.,

It's Zulu time but close enough

The world is divided into 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone (less the letters "I" and "O"). The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times are usually written in military time or 24 hour format such as 1830Z. To pronounce this, the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z, or Zulu. This time is sometimes referred to as Zulu Time because of its assigned letter. It's official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. Previously it had been known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT but this has been replaced with UTC.

Gerbs, the original post in the thread was a joke, I don't understand why you don't take it as such?

[gerbick]

How about this. I've stated it to other foreigners in the past.

How about worrying about your own country, seeing as you have your own country and government to worry about. Don't like Bush? Fine, I don't either. But maybe you should elect some people that will protect your interests of your country and stop trying to line their own pockets.

Otherwise, you cant' vote in the US, you don't really raise awareness, and above all, your information is only received by biased news agencies that report what they deem newsworthy, sensationalistic, or backing their previous points and opinions.

And besides, your country has a shady past. Don't gloss over it with 50+ year old justifications either. Bad past for Switzerland as well. Go figure.

[gerbick]

Originally posted by jamble7000
Gerbs, the original post in the thread was a joke, I don't understand why you don't take it as such?

I did. I can also take the stance that it's boring too.

[Subway]

Originally posted by gerbick
How about worrying about your own country, seeing as you have your own country and government to worry about. Don't like Bush? Fine, I don't either. But maybe you should elect some people that will protect your interests of your country and stop trying to line their own pockets.

Problem is that the US has an impact on our country. It's not possible to just ignore them all the time.

And I feel like an earth civilian, so I can (and should) care about everything that is going on on earth.

Fredi

[gerbick]

I know, I know... think globally, act globally. However, with a properly elected official(s), you can at least stop the political fleecing of your own country, and get politicians that can actually take your country away from dependency.

Otherwise, keep whining.

Anyway, those are my last comments. I tire easily of discussions where information on one side or the other is limited to what they've been force fed. Look back at some other thread where you admitted where your information was limited to second hand information, that was not true to begin with.

Later.

[wouter999]

I think we should talk more about beer or scotch. All this global politics is getting on my nerves.