On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:58 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Thankfully, we've done away with daylight saving here. Several times, by > referendum each time. Several locales change their times regularly. I.e., it's not even known beforehand with well-defined rules. > Note, I am not saying Americans are universally stupid, just that my > perception of some ideas they have they have is that the ideas are. > Such as, "Everyone uses Letter paper." North America tends to have its reasons, as do other locales. I fully agree that Microsoft has been extremely near-sighted on timezone for too many decades now, but I have tried to get them to change to no avail over the same period. -- Bryan J Smith Senior Consultant Red Hat, Inc. Professional Consulting http://www.redhat.com/consulting mailto:bjs@xxxxxxxxxx +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx (Blackberry / Red Hat External) --------------------------------------------------------- You already know Red Hat as the entity dedicated to 100% no-IP-strings-attached, community software development. But do you know where CIOs rate Red Hat versus other software and services firms for their own, direct needs? It's no comparison: http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
