[Logic] Yankee(s) Go Home & let me change my clock when I want.

[Richard Thorne]

You make a good point, however, if Logic's time was driven by the pc clock
the problem would not exist.  The user would simply have to select the
appropriate time zone under date and properties on the pc clock.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Rand" <mrand@netvision.net.il>
To: <logic@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: [Logic] Yankee(s) Go Home & let me change my clock when I want.


> Before I start, I want you to know that much of this is written with
tongue
> in cheek.  I am a US citizen.  My US callsign is N7NPR.  I am also a
> citizen of Israel; I now reside in Israel and my callsign here is 4Z1MR.
>
> Many of you have lost sight of the fact that the whole world does not do
> things the way they are done in the USA.  Israel goes on and off of
"Summer
> Time" at dates other than the dates when the USA goes on and off of
> Daylight Saving Time.  This is true for other countries too.
>
> If LOGic automatically adjusted for the change to and from DST it would
> really make it tough on me and other HAMS who use LOGic in Israel, The
West
> Bank and Gaza.
>
> We would have to manually undo the time changes made by LOGic and we would
> also have to make the changes manually when we go on and off Summer Time.
>
> So, Yankees, please go home and set your LOGic clocks manually and stop
> trying to make the rest of the world conform to your way of doing things.
>
> Incidentally, isn't there a US state that doesn't go on DST??   Sure there
> is.  Arizona, Hawaii, parts of Indiana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
> Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving
Time.
>
> Want more?  OK!  In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in
December,
> Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and
> tropical countries (lower latitudes) don't observe Daylight Saving Time
> since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no
> advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer.
>
> And, oh yes, many years ago when LOGic was in it's infancy and I still
> lived in the good old USA,  I referred Dennis to a US written program that
> gave times for cities throughout the world and automatically made the
> adjustment to ALL (I say again, ALL)locations when the bulk of the USA
went
> on DST.  He didn't change LOGic then and now I'm glad he didn't.
>
> Shalom from, to and for Israel,
> Mike, 4Z1MR / N7NPR
>
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