Re: Did anybody ever patch GS/OS's auto daylight savings?

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Anthony Lawther" <alawther@spammenot.mac.com> wrote in message 
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> David Schmenk <dschmenk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Charlie wrote:
>> > "Payton Byrd" <payton@paytonnospambyrd.com> wrote in message
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>> >> "SlickRCBD" <spamyourself@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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>> >>> Bryan Parkoff wrote:
>> >>>>> In article <1193556850.316938.249600@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
>> >>>>> A2Pro <a2@wilserv.com> 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.