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To: Drew Williams who wrote (98653)	5/1/2001 9:21:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

<The same thing happened way back with clocks because of the railroads. To operate efficiently, railroads needed clocks throughout their network to be based on a consistent standard. Quickly railroad time became the official time, and we're all the better for it. All that is happening today is that this is being raised to a more refined level today with atomic clocks over the internet and airwaves. > Drew, once VW2000 is adopted officially in place of the unsynchronized mayhem of VW40, all the world will operate on a single time. Swatch has been trying to get it going for a couple of years. I like the idea. It's a real pain figuring out the times around the world and agreeing on times, catching planes and stuff. You can click here swatch.com and click on 'Internet Time" in the little box at the top [baby boomers will need their glass to read it]. The Pommy idea of GMT based on 24 hours was good when people did mental arithmetic and the world was divided into degrees [with the 60 degrees matched the 60 minutes and 60 seconds]. But metric universal time is way cooler. Navigating in cyberspace is much different from navigating the high seas and a better clock would be nice. I can't imagine IT bothering with many time zones. IT'll want everything efficient. Mqurice @907