On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:34, Ken Schneider wrote:
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. I hate to think of all of the children that will have more darkness to endure in the morning either walking to school or waiting for the school bus.
The rules for summer time are different in different areas of the world. And in those areas they have changed multiple times. And if I read the timezone stuff right in the glibc source, the calendaring code can handle it. In other words, if you set your computer's date to 1823 or whatever, you'll get the correct summer time info So one more change I don't think will be that hard to handle