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From: truelr@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Robert Truel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Wish List item for HyperCard 2.0
Summary: Not everyone uses Daylight Savings Time
Message-ID: <3680@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 20:40:28 GMT
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In article <1793@wpi.wpi.edu> tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer) writes:
>I would like to the the US
>version of the Macintosh Software automatically recognize and compensate for
>daylight savings time (i.e. automatically turn the clock forward/back). I
>can't see why this hasn't been done before,
>
>- Richard G. Brewer

Here in (Central) Indiana, we don't run on Daylight Savings Time, so unless
you want to force people to keep their Map up to date, and check for
the regions of the world that change, forget it.  It is much easier
for someone who is setting all of their other clocks back to set their
computers clock back also, than it is for someone who doesn't even
know that it is now "Daylight Savings Time" elsewhere to change theirs.
I for one am a bit leery of my computer doing too many things for me, 
especially when it doesn't do them correctly.  Although, before I knew the
benfits of disk block caching, I was wary of a new computer that didn't
even let the user remove his own disk from the drive.

"just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get
you" :)