Re: Did anybody ever patch GS/OS's auto daylight savings?

Bryan Parkoff wrote:
In article <1193556850.316938.249600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
A2Pro <a2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Next year they'll probably
undo the new dates and go back to the old ones. Kids waiting in the
dark for their school bus isn't cool...



Is it worth to patch daylight saving on GS/OS 6.0.1? It requires to put a lot of information about global time, but it is too limited. Think of -- you are supposed to change your time one hour earlier on October 28 at 2:00AM. You are disappointed to see darker at Halloween day. However, President Bush signed the Energy bill few years ago. It is time to change your time by replacing from October 28 to November 4. You will be happy to see little light for one more hour!!

Bryan Parkoff


Yeah, well, the thing that bothers me the most is I have a VCR that doesn't appear to have a way to turn the auto daylight savings time off, and it's hardcoded at the old date. I don't know of any way to upgrade the ROM either.

It makes me wonder, how many other embedded devices were programmed with daylight savings time that had been stable for decades, only to be screwed up by President Bush. Makes me wonder if the idea was to spur economic spending to puchase new devices because the old ones no longer keep the correct time thanks to the little change.
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