[PLUG] DST Sunday morning - Check your system, Win users beware

[Sandy Herring]

Circa 11:20:26 on Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote: 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:41:13PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > There of course is the true fix that is permanent and patches pretty well
> > everything. Getting rid of DST. Fixing it for the whole country would be
> > best, but failing that doing it at the state level works too.
> 
> As I understand it, that process requires a:
> 
>  cd /state/representatives/
>  tar -xvf newrepresentatives.tar
> 
> This is, I am told, because consumers shop more during daylight
> hours, and it is better business to send them to work in darkness
> and have them come home past the stores in the waning daylight.
[snip]
> Keith

If Wikipedia is to be believed, we can thank^H^H^H^H^Hblame golfers for
the stitch in time.

Sandy
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