This is exactly the kind of argument my mother makes. Usually it comes up when she's late.
- Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Miller > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:56 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007 > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
