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Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?



On 2009-03-29_13:06:18, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-03-29 11:49, Paul E Condon wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> A few weeks ago, my Lenny system switched over from displaying time in MST
>> (Mountain Standard Time) to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). It did this, I
>> believe, because the switch-over is mandated in the official locale coding
>> for this region (Colorado). I would like to now how to take a pass on this
>> switch-over part of the local locale. And how to do it ahead of time, so
>> that for me, I don't have to find an unwanted task of undoing a unwanted
>> change waiting on a Sunday morning. My version of what I think OP was  
>> asking for is a variant of locale that does not honor local mandates for
>> switching to and from summer-time. It is very much a cultural thing. 
>
> That's the point: it's cultural.  And it's not an important moral issue 
> like Jim Crow.  So why go against every other clock in CO, UT, WY, NM & MT 
> are now in MDT.
>
> -- 
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>
> "Freedom is not a license for anarchy."

In public, I pretend to be a bleeding heart liberal/progressive, but I
am a closet libertarian. Its my computer, in the privacy of my home. I
like to have the time of sunrise as displayed on the clock harmonized
with what I know of the motion of the planet. Also, a little anarchy
can be a good thing. 

Peace.
-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net


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