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From: nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time (was Re: Wish List item for HyperCard 2.0)
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Date: 9 Apr 89 20:12:51 GMT
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In article <6938@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad (Tim Maroney) writes:
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|Ah yes, all we need is for the Macintosh to read the newspapers so it can
|keep up with acts of Congress.  During the energy crisis, DST was greatly
|extended, and there is now legislation on the floor which would extend DST
|to past Election Day every four years to help with a uniform poll closing
|time.  There is no algorithmic way to determine whether we are in Daylight
|Savings Time or not....

No, but the recent Daylight Savings cdev (I don't even remember anymore
if I got it off comp.binaries.mac or from sumex) allows you to reconfigure
DST to whatever randomness Congress decides on (unless they change it from
Sunday to some other day...).  I installed this and when DST started, my
Mac's clock was the only one in my home that I didn't need to change myself.
Good stuff!

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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