4/5 Spring forward.
\_ how does it work? like: 1:58,1:59,3:00,3:01,etc? if so that
explains why my 2am cron job didn't run.
\_ Yes, the second at 1:59:59 PST is immediately followed by the
second at 3:00:00 PDT. You can verify that locale-aware Unix
time code believes this with date -d '2:00 today' and similar.
Daylight Saving Time is the mortal nemesis of cron.
\_ Windoze gives users a nice reminder that the system time has been
updated and please "verify" the new time is correct, because Gates
isn't sure how to calculate DST. Whereas UNIX users know that the
system will do the right thing.
\_ umm... yes. this is a very good reason for me to use UNIX
over windoze.
\_ Actually since I may be multibooting I _don't_ want the OS to
fuck with my system clock. You really want each of 95, unix
and NT to advance your clock an hour? As only a semi-related
issue, the whole daylight savings time thing is incredibly
stupid. This is no longer an agriculturally based society, so
we don't need that crap screwing things up. Although leap year
and leap seconds are somewhat annoying, at least they're rare
and more importantly, they are necessary to maintaining our
current calendar system. (Although it might be a long time
before we noticed all those leap seconds adding up) :) I say
we should scrap the whole damned thing.
\_ Actually DST is an invention of the 20th century to get
extra productivity out of urban workers! In an agricultural
society, people don't care as much about what time you say
it is as they do about when the sun actually comes up.
\_ Japan, Taiwan, and many Asian countries have already gotten
rid of this shit. This is one main reason that Win95 asks
you what region you're in, and whether you REALLY want to
forward/fall back your clock.
\_ I think every day should be shortned by about 2 minutes.
then at the end of the month, we can all get an extra hour.
This will allow us to work even harder for our employer, or
to catch up on sleep, or net surfing.
\_ I don't really care what the heck the time is on my PC's,
so when Win95 asked me to fix the time, I laughed to see it
*hours* off. I don't ask my pc to keep time, only to launch
gamez. That is, after all, all windoze machines are good for.
-ERic |
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