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to: Robert Comer
from: mike
date: 2007-03-05 18:12:44
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: mike 

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:52:46 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> Does UTC change with DST? If not then it's just things that are set to go
>> on local time that will be affected.
>
>No, UST isn't effected, but these systems also have a time offset for
>conversion to local time, and that does change with DST...  (so it's
>basically the same effect.)


In a previous life, I was responsible for engineering and operating
embedded systems across the United States.   We just had all the system
clocks set to EST all year, regardless of the time zone.

 /m

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