Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

[William Kenworthy]

On 27/04/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here
>>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow
>>> and in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would
>>> have helped.
>>
>> No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about 11,
>> the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of the
>> reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to school
>> in the dark.
>
> ... and the children's accident rate in Scotland shot up.
>
> And what is this idea of saving daylight? Only an American could conceive of
> such a nonsense (I hope).
>

I wish it were so ... every now and again they decide to try it -
usually because one lot of pollies want to get the drop on the other
and/or distract the sheeple with an "issue"

zdump -v Australia/Perth

The pollies (bless their little black hearts) decided to implement a
trial with only a few weeks notice! - Linux/Unix had the updates within
a day of the specs, distros followed with formal a couple of weeks
later.  MS took 12 months and exchange calendars where I work corrupted
and had the be manually reentered (and then defaulted to the Ulan Bator
timezone in Mongolia as they couldnt get windows to do it locally - yes
they have a MS support contract and its a mainly MS shop).  Same going
back ... dont know what it cost in lost productivity, mistakes and other
problems but it wasn't small.

After the three year trial the pollies went to a referendum and said
"ok, you have had 3 years and don't you like it now your used to it?
..." and it was thrown out yet again :)

Even once the fixes were in windows, each change point was problematic
for some/many in IT.

BillK