On 15Mar19:0045-0400, Alan Altmark wrote: > But you must be careful. If you think about this too hard, you will > create a tear in the time-space continuum and fall in. Just remember that > "The music is reversible, but time is not. Kcab nrut, kcab nrut, ...."
What is it about computers and their clocks that after so many decades, we still struggle with getting this right? We can leave the politicians and their local time games out of this. Why does the world standard need to be concerned with the sun's position at exactly noon anyway--why not let just the applications that have a need to know (does that include GPS?) deal with it? The engineering issues been resolved, but we still can't build consensus globally for a proper standard. Am I the only person who considers this state of affairs embarrassing? -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
