From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 27 14:06:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2123A16A408 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster6.tls.net (ecluster6.tls.net [65.196.224.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5558E13C49D for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 2674 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2007 14:04:53 -0000 Received: from 64-184-10-26.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.105?) (ldg%tls.net@64.184.10.26) by auth-ecluster6.tls.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2007 14:04:53 -0000 Message-ID: <45E43ACF.80004@pixelhammer.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:06:07 -0500 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0AFEEDC5-5838-4721-9309-E743EFF5C0B0@techally.com> <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com> <20070222171839.GB30093@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:06:15 -0000 Christian Baer wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:18:39 -0800 Bill Campbell wrote: > >>> Or am I missing the issue here? >> I think the issue is how localtime displays dates. >> >> This whole ``problem'' is a typical example of brainless >> politicians (but I repeat myself) doing things that cause far >> more problems then they ostensibly solve. > > This is geting a little OT here, but could someone explain this to me > please? > For as long as I have been voting Indiana has proposed switching to daylight savings time because it would "save money" and create new jobs. Every year it got defeated, every year Hoosiers spent countless dollars debating the issue, every year Hoosiers told the legislature no. They finally changed it last year, after an extensive campaign which claimed Indiana lost billions of dollars and thousands of jobs a year because we did not have DST. Of course after much prodding, no one could manage to justify those numbers or explain where they came from. It must have worked, because we have considerable increase in traffic caused by the money trucks rolling through town and the bus loads of new workers arriving to fill the waiting jobs ;^) Personally, I think someone just wanted on extra hour on the tee during the week after work. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.