On Tue 2001-01-02 (12:52), Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 18:06 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> > >
> > > [ ... reminder after two weeks of silence ... ]
> >
> > Two weeks of silence is generally enough to let you know that
> > no one is interested in this modification. If someone was,
> > they'd generally have said something by now.
>
> Well, I don't come to the same conclusion here as you do and I'm
> not so sure about it as you are. :) Silence as I see it is just
> a sign for "nobody answered", without a reason to see why. It
> could be work load or being offline or getting side tracked or
> whatever as well as being not interested or disagreeing. And
> finally I want to take the lack of disagreement (or the absence
> of its statement) as a sign for "it's not completely wrong what I
> want to do here".
I tend to agree here - silence could mean many things. In this case, I
can't see why people wouldn't want this - it's something that gets
brought up time and again.
> The experience will make me think twice next time if I'm in the
> mood of spending my resources in the will to help and contribute
> just to find myself sitting there ignored. Would I really feel
> like having this kind of conversation, I could as well open my
> fridge and talk to it ... :-|
I think we can put this current silence down to holidays and getting
sidetracked while trying to think of a reply - the question isn't
particularly easy to answer, and people don't generally answer "I don't
know". (:
I remember reading this, and thinking "gee, what _is_ a good way to test
DST changes?", and then promptly forgetting about it, because I never
really deal with DST changes. I think the only way is the hard way -
changing the date in increments and testing whether extra or no jobs are
run.
Neil
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