Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh

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From: John Bruner
Date: Fri, 10 May 1985 18:02

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Indiana doesn't entirely ignore daylight savings time.  A few
counties do observe it because they are economically related
to out-of-state areas (e.g. the NW counties have the same
time as Chicago).

However, I don't see why the Mac needs to know where you are.
As someone else suggested, all it needs is a flag to specify
what type of daylight savings time is to be observed (none,
US, etc.)  This scheme seems to work well in UNIX (except that
apparently BSD UNIX went to DST a week early in Europe this
year).  This flag could be kept in the parameter RAM, and the
control panel could be augmented to display/set it.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 14:02:19 EDT
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