On 2014-11-28, at 08:47, R.S. wrote:
>
> * Using "clock slow down" means fake time. It is not only innacurate, this is
> intentional => it is fogery. Would you say in a court "ok we recorded the
> transaction, but the time field is fake"?
>
In the U.S. some states have a constitutional limit on the number of
days a legislative session may last. In some cases, the president
of the senate has ordered the sergeant-at-arms to stop the clock in
the senate chamber at 23:59 on the last day to complete business.
I've not heard of any court test of this practice, either:
o Challenging a conviction under a law passed during such an
unconstitutional extension (difficult because the legislative
record says "23:59"?) or:
o Challenging a violation of tavern closing time limits if the
alleged violation occurred while time was frozen in the state.
On 2014-11-28, at 08:35, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
> I whished anyone would be able to stop that ridiculous and usless
> timeshifting twice a year.
>
Bad paradigm for IT implementation. Nothing should be viewed as "shifting
twice a year." Rather the paradigm should be of a function that maps linear
time such as TAI (POSIX's choice of UTC was a bad decision) to civil time.
That function changes not semiannually, but only in consequence of sporadic
legislative action; an extreme example being in Independent Samoa in 2011.
> Did you know that Swiss people actually had a voting back in the late 70's or
> early 80's if we do want to start this glorious thing? We decided no we do
> not. Our Government ignored this and daylight saving was introduced.
>
In the country that takes pride in being the world's oldest democracy?
What am I missing?
> I admit it would have been a funny situation to be a single small country not
> switching to DST while all countries around us do.....
>
Vaguely reminiscent of Sweden's chaotic adoption of the Gregorian
Calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
On 2014-11-28, at 04:53, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
> ... we cannot get commitment from the application side that each and every
> application is either using UTC or that it can cope with duplicate time
> stamps.
>
Who signs their paychecks?
Another "requirement" that reminds me of Cnut.
-- gil
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