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From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time vs. Macintosh
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 14:13:31 EDT
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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.

The "joke" is: how does the Mac figure out I've flown a few thousand
miles.  It would take some sort of hardware.

Try taking a 7300 on a plane and tell me what time it is when you get
to where you're going; especially if your traveling from a DST state
to a non DST state.  I don't think Unix handles that automatically
( unless the 7300 calls the time number when you land ).
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