[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

[larry price]

On 12/20/06, Neil Parker <nparker at lyl.llx.com> wrote:
> ><trivia>
> >
> >I can't find a reference now, but I recall that in Australia, each
> >state's legislature passes a bill every year defining the dates
> >for DST for the following year *in that state*.  They apparently don't
> >do that anymore.  Here's a summary from the Bureau of Meteorology.
> >
> >http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
> >
> ></trivia>
>
> For lots of other similar time zone trivia, I recommend reading the
> source code for the time zone rule files[1].  These files are heavily
> commented, and often rather entertaining.  However, if your sense of Order
> and Security depends on believing that there are people somewhere who
> understand how time zones work, then you might want to avoid these files,
> as they will take away your security blanket.  The awful truth they reveal
> is that time zones are a morass of conflicting information usually driven
> by politics rather than logic, and nobody anywhere knows what the whole
> story is.
>

_I_ run my life on Swatch Internet Time; the only metric time base.

/not really
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