You know, Apple, not everybody is hip to Zulu time…

That's me, standing astride the prime meridian at Greenwich in 2011.

That’s me, standing astride the prime meridian at Greenwich in 2011.

I had to update my debit card info on my Apple ID account this morning, and later I saw that I’d received an email that began:

The following changes to your Apple ID… were made on March 8, 2016 at 2:25:37 PM (GMT)…

And for a second, I thought, No, that wasn’t this afternoon, it was this morning…

And then I saw the “GMT.”

You know, not everybody is going to get that. Plenty of little old ladies are likely to see something like that and freak out, thinking their account has been hacked.

How much trouble would it be for Apple to simply take note of the time zone in which the change was made — information you know they have — and have the notification reflect that?

I guess they’re just too busy thinking up excuses not to help with a terrorism investigation…

3 thoughts on “You know, Apple, not everybody is hip to Zulu time…

    1. Brad Warthen Post author

      Very cool… Y’all, the video Bill links to juxtaposes the Beatles’ “Get Back” with scenes from the film “Zulu.”

      Bill can be relied upon to supply each post with a soundtrack…

  1. Burl Burlingame

    The whole world should be on Zulu Time. Time zones were made for train schedules.

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