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pantalaimon
64 days ago
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Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
That's what people did before time zones were a thing. Is caused a major hassle for railway schedules when those started to be all the rage.
ndsipa_pomu
63 days ago
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Here in Bristol, UK, we've got an old Corn Exchange that has a clock with two minute hands to show London time (GMT) and Bristol time which was about 10 minutes different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exchange,_Bristol
BoxOfRain
63 days ago
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'Oxford Time' is still used for a few things in Oxford, the clock at Christ Church reads five minutes slow with respect to GMT for example.
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