-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-09-25 at 14:03 +1200, Jim Pye wrote:
New Zealand is about to change to their NZ Daylight time next weekend, this is earlier by a couple of weeks than last year. A bug report for this change was posted to Novell and to the clib group for this.
I have a feeling that this whole Daylight savings start/stop thingy is going to be an issue that IT is going to have to handle on a more frequent basis. Now that countries are waking up to global warmimg and governments see that having more daylight time as a way they can say to their constituants they are doing something about it.
With time the people shift their custom and the effect of the time shift dissipates, and the authorities will start thinking of shifting it again. In Spain the shift during summer is two hours, one in winter.
Maybe we need to look at a more friendly way of implementing changes in OpenSUSE than patches. Coming from a NetWare background I remember a screen during install that allowed for the start and stop times to be changed from default times to allow for these sort of issues.
In Linux this is more difficult, because the time setting is not system wide: each user of the multiuser environment has his own adjustments. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG+OcHtTMYHG2NR9URAojkAJ9QH01AxAY4HLR7hqWRd3qoEIkDfACfSfT8 cYmIyRG9XpFI7egPKETuzzE= =zUDN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org