Walter,

now this is an interesting mental exorcise. The terms Reality and Day 
Light Savings Time adjustment.

Since the values we assign time are purely our own, and time passes 
regardless of how we adjust our measuring stick. So reality is based on 
some political wind that blows a lot of hot air (based on the fact that 
Savings time requires law makers to enact it). ;-)

Sorry, just couldn't resist picking on you this morning.


Walter J. Murray wrote:
>
> In real life, local time DOES "fall backward."  At 2:00 AM the time
> instantaneously becomes 1:00 AM again, and that's the way Unix behaves.
>
> Likewise, in real life, UTC never takes a giant leap forward.
>
> The gradual time adjustment that MPE does certainly has its advantages,
> especially for people who use the system time as a time stamp, but the
> Unix method more closely matches reality.
>
>   

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