It's about time

When I set up this blog, lo these many years ago, I set the timestamp thingy for GMT, which is no longer officially called Greenwich Mean Time but in fact Coordinated Universal Time or some such. UTC. I did it on purpose, and I'm sure I had a reason for this. Very likely a sentimental one, but I can't recall what it was. Or maybe I thought that messing with the time zones would disguise my location or something. Make me appear mysterious. Or I thought if the real time were posted it would draw attention to my, um, insomnia issues.

Several people have pointed this out over the years, thinking that maybe I'd just left it on a default setting somewhere, but I've been reluctant to change it. I can't really tell you why; I have been reluctant, or lazy, or maybe I thought I would need it to calculate my longitude from the Greenwich Meridian. Dunno. My reasons for it are lost to the mists of time. So to speak.

But I changed it just now, partly because someone asked me how I'd managed to post something the other day while I was in a meeting. Did I have a Blackberry? Was I posting from a cellphone? I tried to explain, but it was lame. And I've already been outed as a "local blogger" in the free weekly paper, so it's kind of silly to pretend I'm overseas. And my insomnia issues are less acute these days.

Plus, it would look really bad to miss the very first day of NaBloPoMo. And it's already tomorrow, UTC-wise.