Re: A cautionary tale about daylight savings time

In article <472cb914$0$47126$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

erilar <drache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Another fun note: I have a new toy I've been playing with, a GPS
finder. I don't use it for its clock, but happened to look at that bit
this morning when walking and discovered that apparently even
satellites(whence it gets all its info) don't know about Congress'
tinkering with Daylight Shifting Time--it turned back on the old
schedule, too.

GPS broadcasts GMT. Think about it: If it didn't, any ordinance or
aircraft or ship using it to navigate for military purposes would be
confused every time it crossed a time zone.

Besides, there are no time zones in the ocean, only on land.

Complain to the manufacturer that you need a way to input the current rules.

A and HA! I didn't think about GPS being GMT, even though that's
totally logical--it's a new toy and my first GPS encounter. It's
somewhere inside the toy. I'm told there's a software upgrade for it,
but it's Windoze.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo ;


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