Re: Day Light Savings for VMS and UNIX

From: Jim Strehlow (JimStrehlow@data911.com)
Date: 04/09/03 

From: JimStrehlow@data911.com (Jim Strehlow)
Date: 9 Apr 2003 10:26:35 -0700

carl@gerg.tamu.edu (Carl Perkins) wrote in message news:<9APR200300505081@gerg.tamu.edu>...
> All in all, the best solution is for the relevant governmental types
> to get rid of the moronic daylight savings time. It is just a stupid
> idea that should have never been used in the first place.
>
> --- Carl

Agreed.

Businesses that are open 24 hours a day currently must lose an hour in
their logs or write comments that a certain event occurred at 1:30 AM
before the time change or at 1:30 AM after the time change in October.

We are "smart" enough to adjust to the situation.
We should all adopt Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).

East Coast USA could open businesses (8 AM to 5 PM) from 1300 UTC to
2300 UTC.
West Coast USA could open businesses from 1600 UTC to 0200 UTC of the
next day.

When you fly for six hours from West Coast to East Coast from 6AM,
 you would leave at 1400 UTC and arrive at 2000 UTC.
No need to reset your watch when you arrive.

If schools want to open earlier or later based upon when the sun
rises,
then open school at 1300 UTC during months W through X
and open school at 1400 UTC during months Y through Z.
Businesses would (should) adjust the hours that their "9 to 5" workers
arrive
knowing that many parents drive their kids to school before work.

When people complained about programmers and year 2000, it was because
of the cost of disk space. I spent $1000 for a CP/M 10Mb Trantor hard
disk in 1987.
I have the disk drive and I think I know where the receipt is.

People could "complain" that programmers were equally wrong to store
times based upon their local time zones instead of storing date and
times in UTC.

Well, that will keep programmers busy with conversion programs for a
while.
imho

Jim Strehlow
Alameda, CA, USA

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