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Now some may be looking because they think I am talking about a dislike of animals but that is not the the case. Where I am from in the UK, the term just means the thing that people say which you most dislike. You can have many of them as well and, I can assure you,  the internet does bring out many in me.

My theme today is the way that people state times. As I write this, it is 6pm UK time or 1pm US Eastern time. There is a FIVE hour difference there.

Why does it matter?

Well those were only two timezones and there are lots more. I see so many emails that say something will start at a certain time without giving any indication of what that means for everybody. That is a good way of losing visitors because they misunderstand the time that you wrote.

Put the time of something as UTC because that is a universal standard and it is easy for people to convert from that. I will admit a bias here because UTC is the same as GMT and that is the UK timezone.

Just do not go out and assume that everybody is in the same timezone as you are. The internet is global and that leads to big time differences.