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


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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.

My goodness, is it possible to sound any more like a political hack than
this? Why is it Bush's fault that Congress passed an energy bill the
implemented vital changes that standardized the application of DST across
the country and also results in less energy usage?

I have never heard of a credible study showing less energy usage due to
Daylight Savings Time. There was a study done for the US Government in the
1970s that showed a 1% decrease in the use of electricity during Daylight
Savings Time but that was more than offset by the increase in fuels used in
vehicles, machinery, etc.

The fact is that nobody knows whether Daylight Savings Time does any good or
not.

Charlie


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