Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:53:51 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Something for the computer geeks: "Falsehoods programmers believe about time"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 6/19/2012 11:38 AM, Michael Walsh wrote:

>     It's even uglier in the fall....
>
> Forward into the past!

Exactly...or worse.  Like the network time protocol client that "fixed"
the DST issue by moving the time back an hour at 2am on the appointed day.

And then did it again an hour later.

And then again an hour after that....etc.

-- Mike B.