[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: USA may change Daylight Savings Time

Ramon Redondo malinon at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 16:54:37 UTC 2005


I wonder how much software this would break.  QT's recent glitch would
be trivial compared to this:

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>From http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/07/daylight.saving.ap/index.html

Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday
to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the
first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.
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Anyone have any idea if this has been tried before?

This probably wouldn't be too big a deal in the Linux world, since
patches would come out fairly quickly.  But closed-source and
especially older systems could get nailed by this.


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