[OT] Daylight Savings (Was Re: Scripting conference stack available - Standalones)

[Ken Ray]

On 11/8/05 9:17 AM, "Jim Hurley" <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:

>> 
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:10:37 +1000
>> From: Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Scripting conference stack available - Standalones
>> To: jacque at hyperactivesw.com, How to use Revolution
>> <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>>>  The scripting conference will be held at 1131814800 seconds. To convert
>>>  this to your own local time and date:
>>> 
>>>     get "1131814800";convert it to system date and time;put it
>>> 
>> 
>> So, you've gone on to daylight-savings time. Now it's at 3am my time
>> instead of 2am. I'm having trouble deciding if that's better or worse
>> :-)
>> 
>> Yours sleepily,
>> Sarah
> 
> 
> Sarah,
> 
> You have Conrad Adenauer to thank for daylight saving time.

Actually, I thought it was Benjamin Franklin...

  http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html

or did he just muse about it?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com