lol you must be California dreaming. Linux time and Windows time both begin from some date in the past at midnight UT, and I think we can all agree that real world time would be ET, where the most important cities exist like Philadelphia, PA, Newark, DE, and Jersey City, NJ (also NYC and Washington DC).
It makes no sense to have deadlines expire before midnight in the most populous state, which is also the internet's place of birth.
Did you miss, or simply not understand, the word "commonly" as used in my post? It was put there specifically to distinguish from the technical sense of Coordinated Universal Time.
How predictable that a try-hard pedant like you would ignore the "commonly" modifier, just to get in their little wanna-be nerd dig.
Unless specified otherwise, Internet deadlines are by default taken to mean by midnight PST.
The East Cost is the financial nexus, the West Cost is the technological nexus, and I've already partially explained why that is the case. But since you seem to be a slow learner, I'll elaborate.
Jon Postel, the God of the Internet, lived and worked California, not New York. As did the Packet Radio Van:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_VanIf you can't accept that, tough shit. Go invent your own native internet and maybe it will get its own default time as well. Good luck!
