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.
Because summer time is a *bad* thing. Having a consistent time without an artificial shift twice a year is the *right* thing. Besides it has nothing to do with democracy except that the ruling politicians of the time thought it might be a good idea to try on their subjects. In the meantime it has proven to be a lot of hassle with no (or very little) benefit and - at least in my country - the vast majority is in favour of abolishing this enslaving of millions of biorythms. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
