Taupter wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming
I don't think the original poster intended to imply that Brazil
was uncivilized. Rather, being in the tropical zone, the
country gets roughly the same number of hours of daylight all
year long and so a summer daylight savings time doesn't make
sense.
- Kris
Kris,
I understand your
Taupter wrote:
Really, daylight savings could be useful during
all the year.
Is this a joke?
- Kris
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
Taupter wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high
John Hasler wrote:
Mario O.de Menezes writes:
That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from
year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or
2 days till it changes.
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
Kristopher Johnson writes:
Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country?
If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight
savings time in the tropics.
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John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kristopher Johnson writes:
Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country?
If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight
savings time in the tropics.
It isn't much better in the north, where daylight
John Hasler wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming
soon... Coca Cola!.
Hi,
I was able to find some info about daylight savings setting in
other Linux list.
Thanks for your concerns about Brazil. BTW, I think we'll have
daylight savings for while :-))
BTW again, zic(8) is the program which compiles the time zone and
somebody provided an
I wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Taupter writes:
Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think.
What's that got to do with it seasonal variation in daylight?
--
John Hasler
Taupter wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming
On 30 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote:
Mario O.de Menezes writes:
That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from
year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or
2 days till it changes.
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone
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