On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:47:55 -0200, "Fernando J. Rodríguez (Herr Groucho)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For us Argentinians it is easier to just give up on automatic > adjustments of local time with respect to UTC and manually set > etc/gmt-4, etc/gmt-3 or etc/gmt-2 as time zone as the occasion > dictates.
That's for us Argentinians who know what we're doing. The problem is with naive users who change the *clock* instead of the timezone, which would change the computer's notion of UTC time and cause several problems. If a website gives cookies with 1 hour expiration, would the browser expire them immediately if the clock is 1 hour off?. Last year it was worse, since Microsoft didn't have enough time to update the timezones on Windows. And Windows has more naive users than Debian or Ubuntu... By the way, even my iPod thinks we're now in DST even though we're not :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
