what on earth is firefox up to?

[Ian Malone]

On 2 July 2012 00:57, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

>> On 1 July 2012 15:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> > On that note, I've often wondered how systems that look at a file's GMT
>> > datestamp and tell you that time translated into your local time, cope
>> > with datestamps from a long way away, when timezone rules keep on
>> > changing.
>
> They don't.
>
> Fortunately most people are not worried about the exact day the Tynwald
> of the Isle of Man adopted GMT and other such trivia
>
> Until relatively recently we also had madness like the UK daylight
> savings change being a human selected date, and it did get moved a couple
> of times to avoid clashing with major events.
>
> For the future 2800 is where the fun really gets going. Is it a leap year
> - depends which church calendar is used 8)
>

Some people make their own fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar

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