On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:52:41 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>Man, I'd love to use these to start a campaign called "DST Kills".
>
>But so far, only seems to affect bad guys. :-(
>
May I put in a word for UTC for critical timestamps?
And Olson TZ database for z/OS and z/VM?
And Leap Second Smearing?
We seem to be able to deal with a 24-hour offset for Leap Year routinely
(except Y2K?).
But a 1-hour offset for DST is a PITA.
And a 1-second offset for Leap Second causes networks to crash.
This seems strangely similar to Parkinson's Law of Triviality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
>On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
>> Israel in 1999 switched early to standard time for pre-dawn prayers.
>> Palestinian bombers were still on DST and transporting bombs when they
>> went off, thinking they had another hour.
>> http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-38.html
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time Oh, geeze, no define
>> rule since the Lunar Hebrew calendar gets quite out of sync with the
>> Gregorian Calendar, so a lot of last minute changes.
>>
This is hardly any longer at the discretion of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
>> And again in Ireland in 2014.
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10739277/Device-exploded-in-bombers-face-after-he-forgot-about-clocks-changing.html
-- gil
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