Chuck Harris wrote: > With the great ease of computers to make the transformations, > there really isn't any point in removing local timezones. It > is just a table after all... it is nothing like the old days when > every major town used Local Sidereal Time (eg. 12:00 is when the > sun is at its highest). That caused major problems for the > railroads.
Which is the reason to coordinate it. Slightly off, but not too much for it to be a major obsticle. > The biggest problem with local timezones is all of the continuously > changing variations on Daylight Savings Time. That accounts for > the majority of the changes in the unix tz functions. Having Daylight Saving Time as such is not as big issue as not having it coordinated between countries. > It was recently reported that the onset of DST coincides with an > increase in heart attacks, and the return to standard time coincides > with a decrease in heart attacks. Yet another reason to ditch > Daylight Savings Time. Interestingly enought, the decrease does not fully compensate the increase... so the net effect is an increase in heart attacks. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
