On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Interestingly, the Sprint network cannot set its time right, so my
> mobile phone shows an incorrect time as I write it. According to my
> Google search it is a common problem. Likewise, radio controlled
> clocks use a fair weather technology
> http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/radioclocks.cfm that does not
> work most of the time due to a high noise/signal ratio. What a ruse!
>
> This idiocy is enough to turn one into a Luddite, especially that
> there is no public benefit of this practice (beside boosting profits
> of some politically connected business schmucks, of course.)
> Interestingly, some jurisdictions, such as Russia abandoned this
> idiocy altogether and do not use DST at all. Good for them.
Call me squishy, but I like the longer daylight in the evening.
Neither AT&T, Time Warner, nor Apple had any problem handling the time change. Maybe, instead of becoming a Luddite, you just need better technology.
Doug