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

Charlie wrote:
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Bryan Parkoff wrote:
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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.


To the contrary, I have completed a very scientific and thorough investigation into DST. By being born and raised in the small sliver of Mid-North Indiana that doesn't adhere to DST, I've concluded that nothing bad ever came from a DST deficiency. When I moved away after college, I had to learn of this strange concept. Spring forward, fall back - or is it the other way? I still can't remember. Now I will be the last one to call Mid-North Indiana *enlightened*, but I can attest that DST is indeed, a waste of time.

Dave ;-)

Charlie


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