[plug] daylight savings

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

Kai wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:23 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/25/06, Craig Foster <craig at fostware.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 ?
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Also, Kai.. I'm in Broome in 2 weeks - fancy a drink? :D