On 2009-03-30_10:31:27, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:49:22AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 2009-03-29_16:19:28, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 17:07:54 Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > On 2009-03-29_09:59:49, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > Strong and Humble writes: > > > > > > Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that > > > > > > has > > > > > > no winter time shift whole year? > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > A few weeks ago, my Lenny system switched over from displaying time in MST > > (Mountain Standard Time) to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). It did this, I > > believe, because the switch-over is mandated in the official locale coding > > for this region (Colorado). I would like to now how to take a pass on this > > switch-over part of the local locale. And how to do it ahead of time, so > > that for me, I don't have to find an unwanted task of undoing a unwanted > > change waiting on a Sunday morning. My version of what I think OP was > > asking for is a variant of locale that does not honor local mandates for > > switching to and from summer-time. It is very much a cultural thing. > > Silly question why would you want to not follow local time ? I do follow local *standard* time, which is the local time for the west 105deg meridian. I live in Lafayette, Colorado, which is at 105deg.6' west. Local time here is 24 seconds delayed from local time at the central meridian of this zone, and about a minute later than the local time for Denver. That is close enough for me. I'm really not an extremist ;-)
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