[plug] daylight savings

[Kai]

Chris Caston wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 11:31 +0800, Kai wrote:
> 
>>William Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>How much havoc will this cause the doze world? - because helpful
>>>microsoft doesnt allow you to easily override Perths daylight saving
>>>value because we dont have it!  Will windows update catch up?  I notice
>>>gentoo regularly updates their TZ stuff, so when (if) this goes through
>>>I think a swag of bugs on the relevant distros might be in order to make
>>>sure linux stays on the ball.
>>>
>>>BillK
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:37 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:23 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>On 10/25/06, Craig Foster <craig at fostware.net> wrote:
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>>Dunno...and without intending to start a flame war of often wondered why 
>>we don't have an Australia wide standard time based on SA/NT time 
>>because they're in the middle ? sure, we're a wide country and the sun 
>>does rise earlier in the East but what effect would that have overall ?
>>
>>PS: humorous bonus to having an Australia wide standard time is we can 
>>hear JJJ at the same time all over the country :)
>>
>>PS #2: cc'd to Off-topic list to continue there...
> 
> 
> Kai,
> 
> That's an even better idea!
> 
> Businesses can just change their opening and closing or prime times
> accordingly and firms will stop calling me at 6am because they think
> Perth is on Sydney time.

Apparently all of China is on one time zone and that country is HUGE but 
yer, if they want to have daylight saving why not do it all in one go 
and give the whole country in the same time zone ?