[LINK] If a clock ticks in a Klearphelled forest, ...

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 08:34 AM 31/03/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> NSW extended daylight saving for a week this year to bring it in line with 
>> other south-east Australian states.
>
> Victoria had the same, presumably because of the NSW issue?? My set top box 
> program guide is off now, showing programming from an hour earlier as 'now'. 
> My computer also flipped, so I had to fix that. I have an analog clock, so I 
> just matched everything to it.

I have a 75 year old mantle clock I bought on ebay for $100. 
It has no environmental footprint whatsoever.  I wind it once a week,
twice a week for the chimes.   It is usually off by 5 minutes a day,
but I see to that at regular intervals as well.   Good old Dunklings.

On the digital side, I warned them at work about the DST thing 4 weeks 
ago and it turned into a mad rush last week to patch & reboot everything.
Thankfully I was on holidays and only had a minimal involvement.

The only computers we missed at home were our Macs, which didn't 
seem to have an update, so I went to ftp.elsie.nic.gov and got the 
latest TZ data files.   Then we did zic australasia/zic backwards 
and they are still mad - UNIX time shows the correct date/time, 
the toolbar clock is an hour behind!


rachel

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