-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2005-09-17 at 13:42 -0400, Mike Grello wrote:
So, my microwave or VCR will somehow notice the change? The *embedded*
I thought we were talking *linux* here. But as a matter of fact, my VCR would work as happily as ever, as it gets the time from one of the national network stations, there is a standard for that. Unfortunately for you, if you live in the states, that standard is not correctly applied by all stations: some will give New York time in California because they simply broadcast the signal without reinjecting it after correction for time zone. There was an article in the IEEE spectrum not many years back about this, that's why I happen to know.
(remember embedded) processors in my cities traffic control system, etc. will automatically notice the difference?
If they are well designed, it won't matter. Good systems rely on UTC (GMT), like Linux does: even if Linux shows you your local time, internally it is working in UTC, that doesn't have daylight savings and is universal. Or they take their time from some central time reference.
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*.
Pity. Well, it is not the code, it is a table. And any way, linux/unix has its own Y2K equivalent problem lurking in 2038. You should have specified you were talking about embedded Linux systems. You have a point there. However, as my field is electronics, that money replacing chips would come nice :-P Four your info, I would ban daylight savings of the face of the world altogether. Dream on! - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDLLgXtTMYHG2NR9URAr5NAJ9Y2kGCpASdreReXV+CFuqgX0l8vgCfXb3e 7Zzi9oJRYsFhWyZp0tPC4ro= =yCTf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----