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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Callahan? I'll have a God's Blessing, please. :-) [...] -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.