Re: Daylight saving time

Dear Dennis and my Fellowmen,

How would you like to evaluate a new simplified time zone system for
the world and in decimal? This is found in
http://www.geocities.com/peacecrusader888/timezone.htm.

Best regards,
Aristeo Canlas Fernando, Peace Crusader, ICD
Motto: pro aris et focis
http://www,geocities.com/peacecrusader888/

db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org (Dennis Bjorklund) wrote in message news:<Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)44(dot)0410240939310(dot)2015-100000(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>...
> I found a nice page about daylight saving time that I want to share:
>
> http://timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html
>
> Here are some fun quotes from the page:
>
> "Sometimes DST is used for longer periods than just one summer, as in the
> United States during World War II. From 3 Feb 1942 to 30 Sep 1945 most of
> United States had DST all year, it was called "War Time"."
>
> "many countries change the transition days/principles every year because
> of special happenings or conditions that has happened or will happen."
>
> Also notice the current list of DST changes for this fall 2004:
>
> http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2004b.html
>
> I can understand why they did not try to formalize that in the sql spec.
>
> ps. This letter does not mean that I think it's bad to handle time zone
> names, just that it's even more difficult then I first thought.