[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

[Michael Miller]

IMHO time is flawed and tracking time is also a waist of time.  Why do
I say this you may ask your self.  I say this because time is a human
invention.  Humans only care about time because they invented it to
make there lives miserable.

Miller

On 12/20/06, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> //thanks pool.ntp.org
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