On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:23, jdow wrote:
Regardless of all points taken in this discussion think a moment of the humor of the whole thing, please. The repair for Linux is one file that is not even an executable. For my case it's the usr share file: "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles"
And how would one go about fixing it?, mine (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) seems to be some compressed format.
Now think of what this will probably mean for all the "high powered" Windows 2003 servers out there that the "smart IT managers"
As we both know, 'smart' doesn't always equal intelligent...
have installed on their huge server farms. I bet it requires them all to be rebooted for this one wee tiny fix. I just gotta snort with laughter.
(And for what it is worth - why not simply adopt DST all year long? And of course, the way to do that is leave noon for a time zone with the Sun within a half hour of the zenith position and let the schools or work places shift their start times and stop times. But, that's too logical.)
Apply logic? To a basicly human condition problem? That would be totally out of character for TPTB. I'd fall over from shock if that ever happened with enough regularity to get used to it.
{^_-} ----- Original Message ----- From: "Callahan, Michael" MichaelCallahan@templeinland.com
Michael Callahan? I'll have a God's Blessing, please. :-)
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