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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:15:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011011113550.9741-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001101131237.A93272@edgemaster.zombie.org>

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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sean Kelly wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:14AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > 
> > >From what I recall (off the top of my head no less) is that the time
> > change in the fall occurs at 3am [ECMP]DT and jumps back to 2am [ECMP]ST.
> > In the spring, at 2am it jumps to 3am. 1:59am will reliably occur once
> > every day of the year. At least that is how it is done in the US.
> 
> That is incorrect.  The US does not operate like this.
> The fallback and jump forward always occur at 2AM.  This means that when we
> shift back an hour, we go from 1:59AM to 1:00AM.  When we jump forwadr an
> hour, we go from 1:59AM to 3:00AM.  There is never two 3AMs, and there can
> be anywhere from one to two 1:00 and 2:00AMs. 

Like I said, from the top of my head =)

-gordon



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