Subj : Re: Daylight Savings
To   : steviant
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Mar 25 2025 03:54 pm



> Because there are zillions of different daylight savings zones around the
> world and politicians are constantly meddling with them, so if you want to
> make one model of clock and sell it everywhere the best option is just to
> leave it up to the end user.

> I doubt people could handle entering the daylight savings schedule into their
> clocks, the amount of people who can't even set the time on the simplest of
> devices should be testament enough.

> Plus the rules of daylight savings are really stupid, like back one hour at
> two o'clock on the first Monday of April and forward one hour at three
> o'clock on the last Sunday of October* type nonsense. No fixed dates and
> ridiculous times rather than midnight like any normal person would expect.

> The whole idea is just pure evil and should be flushed away with a bowlful of
> holy water. 

> *Yes, I know this is wrong. It's meant to be an example.

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I have a Clock. that after being set for the Time Zone I am in gets the clock
time from the WWVB radio time station which sends a Digital Code periodically
to the correct TOD (Time Of Day).

When the time changes from Standard to Daylight Savings, or back again that
clockradio changes at the exact microsecond it is supposed to.

All those other Timepieces here I have to change when I get ROUNDTUIT.
Ed
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