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to: mike
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-03-04 10:02:06
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: "Robert Comer" 

I think they ought to get rid of it altogether.

--
Bob Comer


"mike"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:37:20 -0500, Tim Boyer 
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Embedded systems in a plant are the killer.  We've got two old time clocks
>>that
>>I'm now going to have to change next week at 2AM, and then three weeks
>>later,
>>and then twice in the fall... forever.
>>
>>Picture the same situation at, say, GM.  Or PLCs that aren't networked in
>>but
>>do certain functions at certain times of the day - I've only got one of
>>those,
>>but it's going to report an illegal lunch break for three weeks. Or
>>hand-held
>>devices at hospitals.
>
>
> Congress should require that DST start and end dates move each year to
> force everyone to come up with a more flexible system to handle it.
>
> /m

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