simon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:46:00PM -0600, Jon wrote: >> I'll take NASA's word for it. >> >> /"Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October" >>
Some of the confusion comes from the misinformation that a lot of media has spread over the years. I've seen a great many TV stations insist that the changeover is at 12:00AM on Sunday (midnight between Saturday and Sunday). I've seen VCR's with auto DST functionality switch at midnight. It really is, however, supposed to be 2AM. There's a couple of good reasons for that: 1. if you switch back to standard time at midnight, you have some complications with what day it is. 2. Most things are closed by 2AM or at least have had last call by then. For the record, Linux boxes will switch without trouble since Linux stores the current time in UTC and the display software converts it to local time. I expect this is the same for a number of other systems. I don't believe a certain system created in Redmond uses UTC internally though. > > It's actually not a specific date (isn't Bush mucking around with it > next year....) and not everywhere runs DST. I say we pick a time and stick with it and none of this futzing with clocks. (That would solve Shawn's code problem, too. :) ) > > Question for your Linux cert, what does the following mean? > "MET-1MEST-2,M3.3.0,M10.5.0" And this matters for anyone in North America how? Or, for that matter, to anyone using a sane distro that has a proper timezone database? (Looks like a time zone spec with DST being 1 hour back of UTC and standard time being 2 hours back of UTC. I'd have to look up how to parse the other latter two parts of the tuple but they would be specifying when DST starts and ends.) Oh, and Mitchell, there's a good reason the world doesn't use UTC everywhere. I used to think the same way but after reading a couple of explanations, I was convinced that it was a bad idea. I'm sure some poking around on google will yield a few arguments for and against the UTC everywhere idea. For the uninitiated: UTC = Coordinated Universal Time; there is no daylight savings time with UTC contrary to what you might have been told. That means you cannot just say UTC is London (UK) time. -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
