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Article #1354Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh
From: J. Eric Roskos
Date: Fri, 10 May 1985 12:36
Date: Fri, 10 May 1985 12:36
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> Don't limit your horizons. When I step on a plane in N.Y. and get off
> at S.F., I want Mac to say, "Time to turn back the clock." I'm sure
> there is some simple hardware solution. Now there is an interesting
> engineering question. :-)
Since this has a :-), I can't tell if it is a joke, or a comment on the
original suggestion.
The original suggestion actually was very reasonable. As the author
mentioned, Unix* handles DST correctly. Except for two years which had
anomalies, the rules for when daylight savings time starts and stops are
simple and well-defined. The code in Unix which handles this is very
short, and equivalent code could easily be included in the Mac's OS.
*Unix is a trademark of AT&T.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh Message-ID: <911@peora.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-May-85 08:36:21 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.911 Posted: Fri May 10 08:36:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 03:21:14 EDT References: <622@utcs.UUCP> <1484@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 20