Re: [PLUG] Daylight Savings Time

["Chad Waters" <chad@chadcwaters.com>]

On 2/2/07, Doug Crompton  wrote:
> But, as in the case of appliances, where is the determination made?
>
> I purchase an RCA LCD TV for my mom and it, like most new TV's, has the
> ability to set the clock via a local channel. In Philly WHYY (PBS)
> transmits timecode. It worked fine BUT it set the clock 1 hour ahead of
> current local EST. A call to RCA was fruitless... nothing else to set, no
> DST flag... after a call to the engineering dept. of WHYY I was told they
> transmit the current local time. In otherwords it follows
> standard/daylight time. So the local devices does not have to do anything
> but get the time. The adjustments are made at the source. This TV was
> assuming the source stayed the same all year long and is setting the clock
> an hour ahead for EST. I presume WHYY follows some industry standard on
> this???
>
> I have a VCR that works fine setting from WHYY all year long.
>
> So do we set based on source or send out a world standard time (GMT) and
> let the destination device resolve it? It seems there is no hard rule on
> this.

I'm confused. Will my VCR be blinking 11:00 or 1:00?

Seriously though, incidents.org may be running stories about this in
the next few weeks :
http://www.incidents.org/diary.html?storyid=2142

-C
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