For those of us who live the promised land where GMT is absolute time all the this "UTC" nonsense is of little concern.... Those of you across the water cant even bring yourselves to call it GMT, you have hide behind the label of "UTC", it is GMT, Greenwich Mean Time at Zero Longitude... Even Microsoft can get this right (see attached) ;-) (can't wait for the barrage of replies to this one..... tee hee....) ---> Brian, I'm ready: lay it on me.... at least 5 paragraphs please...... Brian T. Brunner wrote: >The laws already exist: > >Disturbing the peace, >Misappropriation of public funds, >Prohibition on unfunded mandates. > >What's lacking is prosecutors, judges, and juries who >see the politicians as getting in the way of the >statesmen and the people. > >To drag this back towards On Topic, it seems to me >that the ntp folks might be petitioned to write up and >submit to the Congress, a paper requesting them to >keep their danged hands in one-another's pockets, >and leave the clock alone. > >albeit not in those precise words... > >Brian Brunner >brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com >(610)796-5838 > > > >>>>thebs413 at earthlink.net 11/07/05 02:50PM >>> >>>> >>>> >Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote: > > >>Those darn politicians, there should be a law to put into >>jail for life any politician who even thinks about >>proposing any artificial time changes, >> >> > >While my Libertarian ideals agree with you on the fact that >politicians live to legislate, but statemen do not, asking >for such jail time for doing such would require yet another >law. ;-> > >Seriously now, GMT everything. I have always GMT'd the RTC >-- especially with the common "double jump" that Windows used >to pull on me (until they fixed that). But I started GMT'ing >all systems over the last few years and have been running >things according to GMT time. > >I only setup locale on an individual user-base now. That >minimizes such legislation non-sense (among other things). > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051107/ac3c0e16/attachment-0005.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gmt.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 36596 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051107/ac3c0e16/attachment-0005.jpe>