On 2010-02-17, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 08:58:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> He was wrong, understandably. He should not have included all > white men in that set. Outside USA we have no illusions of > saving time by adjusting our clocks. Let's be fair about it. Here in the US, we don't have the illusion of saving _time_. We have the illusion of saving _energy_. And just think of all of the geeks it employs everytime somebody in DC thinks it's a good idea to futz with the settings. I personally know of somebody who spent a couple weeks developing, testing, committing, and pushing out a patch for a commercial Unix whose name I won't mention. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is it NOUVELLE at CUISINE when 3 olives are visi.com struggling with a scallop in a plate of SAUCE MORNAY?