[LINK] Not a good morning for email

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 12:53, Webb, KerryA wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> > 
> > The same consultants who supply code for putting a useless 
> > date and time on web pages? Which time is displayed on the 
> > web page: where the publisher is located or the user? Even 
> > if the time is technically correct, such as on 
> > the ACT Government home page <http://www.act.gov.au>, what 
> > use is this to viewer? 
> > 
> 
> >From my recollections of the discussions held during the design phase, the
> display of the local time gives the alert reader an idea of whether it's
> currently during the working hours at the ACT government.

Which doesn't make sense either, since different ppl have different
ideas of working hours.  If that was the case then why didn't they just
say "We are open" or "We are closed" or "It's a public holiday".  Makes
sense to me :)

> 
> Kerry
> (not really speaking on behalf of the people responsible for the portal)
> 
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