Our (US) $s at work.

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:23, jdow wrote:
>Regardless of all points taken in this discussion think a moment of
> the humor of the whole thing, please. The repair for Linux is one
> file that is not even an executable. For my case it's the usr share
> file: "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles"
>
And how would one go about fixing it?, mine 
(/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) seems to be some compressed 
format.

>Now think of what this will probably mean for all the "high powered"
>Windows 2003 servers out there that the "smart IT managers"

As we both know, 'smart' doesn't always equal intelligent...

> have 
> installed on their huge server farms. I bet it requires them all to
> be rebooted for this one wee tiny fix. I just gotta snort with
> laughter.
>
>(And for what it is worth - why not simply adopt DST all year long?
> And of course, the way to do that is leave noon for a time zone
> with the Sun within a half hour of the zenith position and let the
> schools or work places shift their start times and stop times. But,
> that's too logical.)

Apply logic?  To a basicly human condition problem?  That would be 
totally out of character for TPTB.  I'd fall over from shock if that 
ever happened with enough regularity to get used to it.

>{^_-}
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Callahan, Michael" <MichaelCallahan at templeinland.com>

Michael Callahan?  I'll have a God's Blessing, please. :-)

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