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24 Jul
2005
24 Jul
'05
21:44
Ken, On Sunday 24 July 2005 14:34, Ken Schneider wrote:
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And wait for the shysters that run our government (in the USA) change the dates for DST by adding three weeks in the spring and one in the fall. Won't that cause a lot of confusion for the programmers. And think about all of the legacy systems that will have to be updated/programs changed. And these are supposed to intelligent people. ...
If these programmers are worth a whit, they did not hard code DST rules into any code that performs calendric math, because such computations are some of the most special-case-riddled of anything you'll ever have to compute.
-- Ken Schneider
Randall Schulz