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On 26/04/2013 23:02, the guard wrote: |
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>> I was thinking more along the lines of how Windows has no concept of UTC |
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>> set in the hw clock and a local timezone, and how timezones are odd |
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>> things like Harare/Pretoria instead of the official names like |
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>> SAST GMT+2 as set by the scientific timekeeping community. |
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>> How about daylight savings? Can Windows deal with that? Other than by |
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>> just shoving the clock back and forward by an hour on the right days? |
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> All I can say that XP didn't understand our polititians when they cancelled "summer time" |
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> daylight saving. btw I saw a good quote in this list. something like "only a white man can believe |
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> that by tearing a blanket at the bottom and attaching it on the top he will make tha blanket longer"???? |
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XP didn't understand our politicians either, but we are a special case |
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amongst special cases. Nothing in this entire universe understands *our* |
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politicians, so XP gets a free pass on that one here :-) |
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And that's a funny joke, but not really accurate. Daylight savings is |
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designed to have the big orange ball visible in the sky for the maximum |
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amount of time whilst people are working at their daily 9 to 5. The day |
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doesn't get any longer, you just shift the darkness part forwards and |
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backwards. |
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I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here |
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either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and |
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in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have helped. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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