On 12/20/06, Neil Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><trivia>
>
>I can't find a reference now, but I recall that in Australia, each
>state's legislature passes a bill every year defining the dates
>for DST for the following year *in that state*. They apparently don't
>do that anymore. Here's a summary from the Bureau of Meteorology.
>
>http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
>
></trivia>
For lots of other similar time zone trivia, I recommend reading the
source code for the time zone rule files[1]. These files are heavily
commented, and often rather entertaining. However, if your sense of Order
and Security depends on believing that there are people somewhere who
understand how time zones work, then you might want to avoid these files,
as they will take away your security blanket. The awful truth they reveal
is that time zones are a morass of conflicting information usually driven
by politics rather than logic, and nobody anywhere knows what the whole
story is.
_I_ run my life on Swatch Internet Time; the only metric time base.
/not really
//thanks pool.ntp.org
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