On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Joe Abley wrote:
If daylight saving is brought forward this year, I guess we'd need a new 2001-only rule in the unix timezone database.
( Must control fist of death )
No! Bad!
Doing Australia last year was a pain, I in no way plan to go through that again with a couple of weeks notice and on EVERY server, router and NAS (okay not NASs cause Ascend never understood the concept (Ours run in ihug standard time which is +12:00 all year))
I've sent a quick email to the isocnz list as well, but I'd appreciate anyone with the minister's ear stomping on this this "bright idea".
Amen to that. I think that someone hasn't quite figured out that by the first Sunday of October, it's starting to warm up. In September, IT'S STILL RATHER CHILLY (insert relevant expletives where desired, for better effect). It doesn't matter whether or not you give people more daylight at the end of the day if the temperature is still hovering marginally above single figures. Hell, we just had a person hauled out of a ravine in the central north island who had a core temperature of 25 degrees. The IT aspects of this aren't so much scary as annoying. Sure, it doesn't really hurt anything if times are out by an hour until the proper NZDT rollover date arrives, but I'm sure it will be expected that all IT infrastructure will be set to the correct time. What does one do about OSs like Windoze that don't have flexible daylight savings rules? Methinks that whoever came up with this idea needs to engage their brain prior to opening their mouth. Of course, that would defeat the purpose of them being a politician. -- Matthew Poole "Ever wondered why cemetaries raise the cost of burials then blame it on the cost of living?" --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog