Unfortunately our Congress seems to have a short memory, on top of constantly appearing embarrassingly stupid and crooked as a snake. I remember the last time they messed with DST. Seems little Yankee school munchkins were being squashed by school buses in the resulting early morning darkness. Didn't take long for the voter outcry to reverse that dumb a-- move :-(
Note to silicon designers: Don't rush to adjust! Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 11:52 AM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: Re: [sqlite] calculate age > > > Holiday determination per country (or even per state/city) > via an algorithm > can only get you so far because it is at the whim of > constantly changing > local laws. You basically need a database of all the dates > for the exceptions. > Even getting a reliable source of such information for > various countries is > problematic. > > On a somewhat related topic, I wonder how many computer > systems will be affected > by the new US daylight savings time changes going into effect in 2007. > What a mess. Son of Y2K - Y2K7DST. > > --- Jay Sprenkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LOL! You should look at a function to determine if a day is > a holiday. > > Talk about ugly! In some places you literally need to know > the weather > > and the phase of the moon! > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
