nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) (04/10/89)
In article <6938@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad (Tim Maroney) writes: | |Ah yes, all we need is for the Macintosh to read the newspapers so it can |keep up with acts of Congress. During the energy crisis, DST was greatly |extended, and there is now legislation on the floor which would extend DST |to past Election Day every four years to help with a uniform poll closing |time. There is no algorithmic way to determine whether we are in Daylight |Savings Time or not.... No, but the recent Daylight Savings cdev (I don't even remember anymore if I got it off comp.binaries.mac or from sumex) allows you to reconfigure DST to whatever randomness Congress decides on (unless they change it from Sunday to some other day...). I installed this and when DST started, my Mac's clock was the only one in my home that I didn't need to change myself. Good stuff! Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | Charisma doesn't have jelly in the | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel | middle. -- Jim Ignatowski |