In <[email protected]>, on
10/10/2011
at 09:13 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Sounds good in theory, but in practice, the will of the people, wise
>or otherwise, prevails. That will can't be overruled by the needs of
>IT.
It's not just people in IT that hate DST.
>Your proposal, if implemented, would soon engender a semiannual
>switch between GMT and GMDT.
That would be your proposal, not his. His proposal is to shift the
work day by an hour twice a year without messing with the clock
settings. Since it makes sense, Congress will never adopt it; I can't
speak for the legislatures of other countries.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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