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From: munnari!cs.uow.edu.au!david@uunet.uu.net (David E A Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Spring Ahead, Fall Behind
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Date: 29 Oct 90 04:06:48 GMT
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telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes:

>It is that day again: the day when folks in the United States set our
>clocks back one hour, to make up for the one hour advancement we made
>in April. Sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning, move your clocks
>back an hour to resume *Standard* time. The official changeover time
>is 2:00 AM Sunday morning local time, of course.

What a coincidence - this year our daylight saving started on
29-Oct-90 at 2am Australian Eastern Standard Time (which became 3am
Australian Eastern Summer Time).

This year all the states (except Western Australia & the Northern
Territory) agreed to start on the same day (in past years Queensland
was out by a week or two).

Apparently a number of newspapers in Queensland had instructed their
readers to move their clocks BACK rather than the correct forward.

The telecom connection? According to one news item on the radio, in
Queensland the Telecom speaking clock also went backwards by mistake.

The lack of a deterministic algorithm for the start/end of daylight
saving causes us no end of problems with our computers. Our Sequent
computer and all our Annex boxes thought it started last week. Our
Sun's got it right this year.


David Wilson	Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au