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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh
Message-ID: <911@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 08:36:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 08:36:21 1985
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>  Don't limit your horizons.  When I step on a plane in N.Y. and get off
>  at S.F., I want Mac to say, "Time to turn back the clock."  I'm sure
>  there is some simple hardware solution. Now there is an interesting
>  engineering question. :-)

Since this has a :-), I can't tell if it is a joke, or a comment on the
original suggestion.

The original suggestion actually was very reasonable.  As the author
mentioned, Unix* handles DST correctly.  Except for two years which had
anomalies, the rules for when daylight savings time starts and stops are
simple and well-defined.  The code in Unix which handles this is very
short, and equivalent code could easily be included in the Mac's OS.

*Unix is a trademark of AT&T.
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