| Stephen Gran on 12 Mar 2007 02:07:45 -0000 |
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:33:07PM -0400, Doug Crompton said: > Well my unix and Windows computers worked fine, since I had applied > updates. > > My SIP phone needs a new rule which I did not get to yet. Software is stupid. Hardware is even stupider. No surprise there. > My 'atomic' clocks worked fine. How is that? How did they know > the change? You set timezone on these things. I guess Boulder send out the > corrected time? 'atomic' clocks (by which I assume you mean clocks serving time over the network, whether by ntp or some other protocol) generally just serve ctime, and let the receiving machine figure out it's time zone. > My VCR's were a no go. They are still on EST. I had called Channel 12 > awhile back on this and the engineer there claimed they send out actual > time - e.g. follow EST/DST. Either that is not true or they screwed up. > If that is not true then the autoset is useless as there is no way to set > rules in these things. Anyone else having trouble with TV settable > devices? > > This is all so bogus. There has to be a better standard way to do this. > Having rules and settings in devices is just not the way to do it. > Especially devices that get set locally. Cell Phones are a good example. > They just follow the time of the cell they are in. You can drive across > timezone boundries and watch it change. Well, we could all switch to one timezone, and then life gets much easier. Unfortunately, I think some people will get upset about it being 4AM when they are taking lunch. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | When you say that you agree to a thing | | steve@lobefin.net | in principle, you mean that you have | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | not the slightest intention of carrying | | | it out in practice. -- Otto Von | | | Bismarck | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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