On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:54 am, Ramon Redondo wrote: > I wonder how much software this would break. QT's recent glitch would > be trivial compared to this: > > -- > > >From http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/07/daylight.saving.ap/index.html > > Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday > to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the > first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November. > -- > > Anyone have any idea if this has been tried before? > > This probably wouldn't be too big a deal in the Linux world, since > patches would come out fairly quickly. But closed-source and > especially older systems could get nailed by this.
On Unix/Linux, it litterally would be as simple as editing the source zonetab for the US, setting an ending date for the the current rule, starting a new rule with the new dates. Then performing a ZIC command to compile the rule file into a binary and ship the binary around as a file. Someone familiar with the file format could probably do it in 30 minutes or less. Brian _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
