Is your zoneinfo updated for "new and improved" DST?

[Colin McGregor]

--- Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > I won't be surprised to find that some of the VCRs
> in the house will change at the wrong time of year.
> 
> I would be surprised if any of them did do it
> correctly.  Y2K was a
> coding error.  This is a political error it seems. 
> All the code that
> was correct last year is now incorrect.  Maybe the
> Saskatchewan farmers
> were right.  Daylights savings time is a stupid
> idea.

Some will, sort of. I have a VCR about 6 years old
that could handle the time change ok, reason being
that it can use a time signal transmitted by the local
PBS station. The bad news being in my experience (and
I have not double checked this in a while) the PBS
station clock tended to be off by more than I was
happy with (ok, so I am a bit fanatical about the VCR
clock being right to within 1-2 seconds)... So, that
VCR is set to manual clock and I update it by hand as
required...

Now, the vast majority (and any older) VCRs that
depends on an internal program to compensate for DST
is going to be in trouble. Only old VCRs that use some
sort of external time source will be ... sort of okay.

Colin McGregor.

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