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Mike Easter wrote:
> Jim Bean wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>>> snuhwolf wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:16:47 -0700
>>> NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:17:01 +0000 (UTC)
> 
>>> Or, said a simpler way;  it appears that your clock is set an hour into
>>> the future due to a wrong timezone offset -- perhaps due to something
>>> misconfigured about the daylight time condition.
> 
>> Farkin idiot! Snuhwolf is posting from North America, so he's adjusted
>> his clock for daylight savings time correctly. But based on the abuse
>> address of "datemas.de", it's a safe assumption to say his newsserver
>> is located in Germany. The thing you don't seem to grasp is that ONLY
>> NORTH AMERICA HAS SET THEIR CLOCKS FORWARD FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME,
>> the entire rest of the world won't set their clocks ahead until next
>> weekend .... so his newsservers time is ALSO correct.
> 
> You don't get it.  It doesn't matter whether a particular place on earth
> is or is not observing daylight time in their localtime.  The entire
> southern hemisphere handles daylight time completely differently than the
> northern hemisphere, but that doesn't put the southern hemisphere in a
> 'timewarp' which causes them to be in some other time/space than the rest
> of the world.
> 
> The fact is that we are all experiencing the same time at the same time,
> and we can express that same time in UTC to resolve the confusion of what
> time it is localtime or daylight time or not daylight time.
> 
> There is no problem with snuhwolf being in a different timezone than his
> newsprovider, and there is no problem with snuhwolf being someplace in
> North America that doesn't observe daylight time while surrounded by
> others who do, but then the timezone offset should be configured
> accordingly.
> 
> Or, said another way, if your timezone offset is -0700, then your clock
> should be set to the appropriate localtime for the -0700 offset.  If your
> timezone offset is something else, like -0600, then your clock should be
> set to the appropriate localtime for the -0600 offset
> 
> 
Feh...yer *both* wrong. My system uses a sundial.
So on cloudy days....yeah....obviously theres gonna be a problem.



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