Re: Daylight Savings Time and Palm

[Dan Busarow]

On Apr 3, James Preston wrote:
>There are many devices extant that automatically set/unset DST. For probably
>better than 95% of the US, and the majority of the world, the rules are
>fairly simple and easy to implement in software.

On a Sun Solaris system, just the rules for calculating the change, in a 
compiled binary format, take up 420K.  FreeBSD uses 450K.  Then you need 
the logic to implement those rules.  My Palm VII doesn't have 400+K to spare.

Dan
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