Re: [Bacula-devel] DST and scheduling

[Phil S. <phi...@sp...>]

Martin Simmons wrote:
> I have no first-hand knowledge of this, just what is written in the Linux
> zoneinfo files.  Asia/Baku changes both ways at 1am, which I think means there
> is a double midnight.  Africa/Cairo changes both ways at midnight, which I
> think means there is a missing midnight.
[...]
> Actually, it is even more variable than that I think, because we change at
> 1am/2am in the UK (i.e. same GMT) but the USA changes at 2am/2am (i.e. same
> wall-clock time).

I still say we need to drop all the damned timezones and "daylight
savings" nonsense and have ONE, CONSTANT, GLOBAL time.  OK, so this
means local dawn in, say, Seattle is at 1445 and dusk is at 0550 ...
fine, GET USED TO IT.


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