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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Times and Time Zones
Message-ID: <1630@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:51:33 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1630
Posted: Tue Dec  1 19:51:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 11:32:45 EST
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: Amazing Discussions here... ...I'm really impressed.

These are some messages that have appeared in this newsgroup:

> Yes.  First you set a school starting time that's too early in the
> morning, when there isn't enough light, and then you observe too many
> accidents, so, instead of adjusting the starting time, you tell
> everybody to change the clock?  It sounds like an awfully complicated
> way of starting school at 9 instead of 8.

Is that all you people think about is school, comupters, time changes,
and economics?  Why don't you try to discuss something useful like networking
(I'm sure you can argue about that for a while).

> Most of Indiana does not observe daylight savings time and gets along
> just fine, and avoids a lot of confusion (and a lot of misadjusted
> clocks twice a year).  Somebody ought to sit down and calculate how
> many man-hours of labor goes every year into moving clocks backwards
> and forwards, and into fixing the problems caused by confusion about

Do you think that the sections of Indiana that don't observe daylight
savings time have any choice in the matter?  Time zones are determined almost
exclusively (in the USA) by the Department of Transportaion.

> daylight savings correctly.  Some people actually reboot their system
> twice a year just for this purpose.  Worse, not all countries agree on
> when daylight savings will start, which means international carriers
> have to hit an elusive target with their printed schedules, to say
> nothing of international broadcasting.  The costs are hidden, but you
> can be sure there are plenty.

Back to economics.

> Name-calling directed at inanimate objects ("damn this stupid
> computer!") or at ideas ("stupid daylight savings") is perfectly
> civilized behavior.  And in this case at least, the label is

Now people are even defending computers.  As if they care if they are being
insulted.  Who was that person that who made the name-calling accusation?
The first living computer?  Even though I am majoring in computer science,
I hope that I never live, breathe , and think computers.  I only want to
know how to use them.

Michael Niehaus
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