post 165

By anders pearson 28 Oct 2000

if i actually watched TV or listened to the radio or otherwise had any sort of contact with humanity on a regular basis, daylight savings time probably would have come as much less of a surprise to me tonight. it didn’t help that i was trying to debug a program that depended somewhat on time to order things. “Why the fsck is it not putting the newest one at the top anymore?!? it was working fine 2 minutes ago and i didn’t change anything!”

i seem to remember there being some big debate over whether daylight savings was relevant to modern society and whether we should just do away with the whole thing. i don’t really remember how the arguments on either side went, but right now i’m siding with those midwestern states who don’t bother with it because it confuses the cows. make that cows and exhausted programmers.