When I was doing system programming for DEC VAX computers back in the 80's
and early 90's, it was a big deal when someone came up with a routine that
in the fall would s-l-o-o-w the computer clock down for something like three
hours so that over those three hours, only two hours would pass on the
clock; then, in the spring it would MakeTheClockTickFaster so that four
hours would pass in three, thus effectively setting the clock forward or
backward an hour without ever having a strange hour-long gap at one end or
repeating the same hour twice at the other end (resulting in files that were
created after they were modified and other such oddities).
For computers, Daylight Savings Time "does not compute."
On or near 3/24/01 8:44 PM, Michael W. Wellman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Since this almost always becomes a topic this time of year...
>
> See <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> for the details of why
> Daylight Savings Time is "hard". ;-)
>
> Israel is particularly interesting...
>
> mikel
>
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