From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8751381F3 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A7B0E0B31; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AC41E0B29 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id s10so4269883wey.21 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xVvsJCMAB/iqp9zbUlB4XpIpWlYRqvlYbt2qTJpJYr0=; b=zJmACM97mOm5sNavHdpe1AnSn4NfTI7jVgLje9qRlxNfN7UeZNDKyoBy9L9zy5QSfa CWdnvRGFLcJ2iTveW3T9g4MPj2EhlqK1T+t98J0SGvXZYxo/TP2lSyTKxO9dXr+9/+DD VAs0w2D885WXNDm6lY9DcGQkS22JzeIwExsAFb5Sy86wmTddiWsg02QhnXnVLfNmShXd sF4G00d1HCeIewdja294aJxOgJCIXfpbapxTgGeyVsvaY9glGf3QB9vHWoJNL4n5XW7R LtdfCQ8OcPUWz36IwFbGFDPsukcZ5PhWsoVQw4h9QFzHcpIyPbwOobf0dZOQpM9BmVUb dERw== X-Received: by 10.180.80.3 with SMTP id n3mr9767410wix.20.1367084964726; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-203-210.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.203.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q13sm11361485wie.8.2013.04.27.10.49.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <517C0F68.6060903@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:48:24 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion References: <1367009197.198336309@f266.mail.ru> <517AE99B.8050306@gmail.com> <1367010158.731111444@f266.mail.ru> <517AED56.20407@gmail.com> <20130426224310.6ac3c352@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130426224310.6ac3c352@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9a60a395-6ded-4541-afbb-6349b80e8d01 X-Archives-Hash: d1ef2ad1a9874cc6b58f21dd491ed59b On 26/04/2013 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and >> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have >> helped. > > No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about 11, > the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of the > reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to school > in the dark. > > Hmmm. DST as punted here was couched in reverse terms - have kids go to school when it was light, as it would still be light in the early afternoon when they went home. DST never took off here, it would only be useful in the Cape down south and only for about a month or so of the year. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com