[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

[Jason LaPier]

This is exactly the kind of argument my mother makes. Usually it comes
up when she's late. 

- Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org 
> [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:56 AM
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007
> 
> 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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