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.


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


Gee fellas,

You're not telling me that Ben Franklin got it wrong are you?

Certainly not. Ben Franklin knew better than anyone that Daylight Savings
Time would have no effect on the amount of electricity used at the time :-)

Charlie


Seriously the state in which I live (Western Australia) is currently
trialling DST (again) and the arguments are flying thick and fast back
and forth. The most important reason as I see it, is my kids now wake up
at about 6:30am instead of 5:30am. An extra hour of sleep is definately
worth the small inconvenience of twiddling the clocks twice a year.

Regards,
Anthony.


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