IMHO time is flawed and tracking time is also a waist of time. Why do I say this you may ask your self. I say this because time is a human invention. Humans only care about time because they invented it to make there lives miserable.
Miller On 12/20/06, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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