Not exactly a "huge expense", but I have VRCs at home and fax machines at work
that know how to automagically change their times under the old rules but
cannot be updated to new rules, so I am grumpy even before I worry about
fixing our remaining Win-2k and NT4.0 machines.

Dave (yes, we still have one NT 4.0 machine in service) Powell,    MMFab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Gordon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 09:10
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] DST Changes


> I have to say that I'm stunned that this legislation never got
> overturned, I really thought it would.  They've doinked around with
> DST a lot of times, the last time it was extended was because of the
> BBQ lobby, this time I saw an interview with the congressman that put
> it forward and his lame, stuttering reason was "wouldn't it be nice
> to get home from work and have it still be light out?".  Well, if
> that is the argument, then have DST in the winter instead of the
> summer - oh yea,they tried that and kids were going to school in the
> dark.  I personally hate DST and now it's 3 weeks longer causing a
> huge expense in the private sector for all kinds of devices and it is
> all on the whim of some moron in congress.
>
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