On 2009-03-29_16:01:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-29 14:05, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-03-29_13:06:18, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-03-29 11:49, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> A few weeks ago, my Lenny system switched over from displaying time in MST >>>> (Mountain Standard Time) to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). It did this, I >>>> believe, because the switch-over is mandated in the official locale coding >>>> for this region (Colorado). I would like to now how to take a pass on this >>>> switch-over part of the local locale. And how to do it ahead of time, so >>>> that for me, I don't have to find an unwanted task of undoing a unwanted >>>> change waiting on a Sunday morning. My version of what I think OP >>>> was asking for is a variant of locale that does not honor local >>>> mandates for >>>> switching to and from summer-time. It is very much a cultural thing. >>>> >>> That's the point: it's cultural. And it's not an important moral >>> issue like Jim Crow. So why go against every other clock in CO, UT, >>> WY, NM & MT are now in MDT. >>> >> >> In public, I pretend to be a bleeding heart liberal/progressive, but I >> am a closet libertarian. Its my computer, in the privacy of my home. I >> like to have the time of sunrise as displayed on the clock harmonized >> with what I know of the motion of the planet. > > So, do you reset your clock every day to make it so that your clock's noon > is the same as solar noon? > > If not, then you are just deluding yourself.
Way upstream in this thread I gave what I thought to be an informative and polite reason for my interest in controlling the visiual presentation time values on my computer screen. Later you mention Jim Crow laws. I agree with you that Jim Crow laws are really BAD. This little preference of mine is in no danger of metastasizing into a serious moral issue. Believe me. The regular movement of the time of noon over the span of a year is part of reality that I know, understand, and to some extent, treasure. I think I am not in denial about who I am, or where I am. Unless, of course, it turns our on further investigation that we are all just software objects instantiated by a computer simulation of life being run on a giant computer on a planet circling Alpha Centauri. But how could we ever learn that? -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
