Ok
Did you remember to change ?
Iâve known (personally) people involved on âboth sidesâ ⌠I have personal views of which side was in âthe rightâ and which side was in the wrong⌠At one time the âFeniansâ were from both Catholic and Protestant backgrounds - but the English knew how to play each side against the other - the end result being âNorthern Irelandâ⌠both sides regret that⌠In the middle of the 19th century - there were Fenians from Ulster and LondonderryâŚ
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Think we all have views on right or wrong but most are influenced by report in the media or parents. Friends⌠Always difficult to really know what is happening or being pushed.
Thatâs why I try not to judge or comment on anything around religious events. Politics money or anything thing similar.
I have views like you could be considered biased in one direction or another
Easy to gree that is different and respect the others point of view
Even if itâs wrong,(ha ha ha) I joke.
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I view right and wrong as applying to individuals.
Once you go beyond individual responsibility , events are never black or white⌠there are many grades of desirability, and it can be multi-faceted.
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Back to the original topic⌠DST
The name is wrong , it does not save daylight, it shifts it relative to the clock.
Should be called Summer Clock Shift.
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Maybe a better name would be DIM for Darker In the Morning.
or
Maybe MES for More Evening Sunlight. 
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All wrong !
It was implemented by
Eli Lilly and Company - Wikipedia.
to create depression and Seasonal affective disorder helps the company sell and prescribe prozac ask 99 % of the population.
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True, but in effect it does save daylight. If we didnât âspring forwardâ the sun would come up at 4:30 AM where I live. That daylight would be wasted. Weâre âsavingâ it for later in the day when weâre awake.
I understand weâre simply moving the clock and our schedules. Iâm good with keeping it as is. More time for golf after work. If I wanted to get up at 4:00 AM to golf I could do that too I suppose, but that doesnât match up well with my work/home schedule.
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Its that time again, to change the clock, gain an hour extra in bed âŚâŚ or not, as we discovered last time i raised this not everyone gets it
But i am off to bed early so i gain even more or not
Summer change i love but winter no thanks to dark nights except more time on the computer as its too dark to play out !
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Ours changed at beginning of October. It means I have to sit up till midnight for it to be cool enough to go to sleep..
I do not like it.
My computer does not seem to mind.
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There are two states in Australia that donât implement Daylight SavingâŚ
Where I am - i.e. West Australia - and QueenslandâŚ
In my lifetime - weâve had 3 trials of it here in WA - i.e. 3 years in a row - then a referendum asking to continue and the answer is always âNo!â⌠Once when I was in primary school (early/mid 70âs) ⌠Another time in the late 80âs⌠And then again around 2007, 8, 9⌠I was doing UNIX (mostly Solaris) admin stuff 2008 and 2009 - but someone else on our team ensured the cutover went smoothlyâŚ
Me? I prefer it - but - I am grateful Iâm not in charge of a massive server farm and hope everything gets syncâd at the time change⌠One thing thatâs annoying - I do actually deal with quite a few colleagues in Sydney and Melbourne, and come late Sept or early Oct - theyâre suddenly THREE hours ahead of me instead of TWO!
One thing thatâs always a bit âhairyâ is databases - usually okay to jump forward in time - can be problems when jumping backwardsâŚ
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Quick and dirty: I donât care. 
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I wonder what would happen of I had a Gentoo compile running at 2.00am on the night of the swapover. Make depends on file dates for information about whether object files are up to date. ⌠it could tangle seriously if dating changed during a make.
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Wise men wonât do that. 
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Use linux mint âŚ.. hahaha
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I think you didnât get the pointâanother time.
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Not sure, but I guess this can be worked around by using universal time for any records in databases, filesystems, an use this universal time for comarisons, etc.
The time presented to the user just translated to a local time. Local time translation takes into account the daylight-wasting-time change.
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yes, UTC should deal with that.
When you install you get an option to choose UTC or localtime. You should choose UTC. I think it is the default in most installs.
I will have to be carefull⌠several multibooted linuxes and now one BSD all working on the same data filesystem . They need to all be using the same time system. I dont see any mess, so they must be all the same⌠it was a fluke, I never thought about it.
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I dont like that. How do I know if a time I am looking at, eg in an ls command, has been fiddled for presenting to the user.
When I look, I want to see what is there.
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I wouldnât say âfiddledâ. There is simply a TZ offset applied, referring to your local TZ. How else would you deal with file dates across different TZs?
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