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Re: Did anybody ever patch GS/OS's auto daylight savings?
"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? Environmentalists and
others have been clamoring for this change for years. It was because of
resistance from business that the changes weren't implemented sooner because
there's a huge cost involved in ensuring that software is up-to-date.
Fortunately modern operating systems handle dates in a sane manner and as
long as applications use the APIs provided by the OS then there should never
be a problem. As for the embedded market, all I can say is that hardware
manufacturers who do not use an updatable ROM scheme are asking for customer
backlash in this day and age of devices that update themselves over the
Internet.