On Saturday 17 September 2005 08:07 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-09-16 at 21:19 -0400, Mike Grello wrote:
You don't :-)
It is already done. Hoewever, if you want to modify your time zone settings, yast does it.
Has anybody given any though what we USer are to do about the fact that our idiot Congress extended it for a month in their energy bill (instead of promoting renewable energy)? Can you say "Y2K"?
It has nothing to do with Y2K. You must know that daylight changes are movable, depending on what the legislators of each country decide each time they want to decide things: therefore, the systems contains tables defining years in advance those dates and times that the software has to change time; and those tables are independent for each country. The legislators want to change dates? So be it. Software maintainers change dates accordingly. No big deal.
You want to complaint that changing the time is a nuisance? Yes, it is. That the hour should be stable and fixed all year round? I agree. That Bush is a...? I don't care, he is not my president, and this is a Linux mail list, not a political one.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
So, my microwave or VCR will somehow notice the change? The *embedded* (remember embedded) processors in my cities traffic control system, etc. will automatically notice the difference? That is why it is like Y2K; computers aren't the only things that use "computers". Some of those "computers", embedded and hardwired, use Linux. The cost to replace those chips were pretty significant in 2000, now just 7 years later we have to do it again, and *for no reason*. oh, Cheers! -- "My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant"