[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

[Michael Miller]

I don't use it as a argument for being late.  I just think it's silly
how some people ( My self included ) are obsessed with time.  I can't
sand it if one of my servers or network devices has the wrong time.

On 12/20/06, Jason LaPier <jason.lapier at tacs.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 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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