[time-nuts] Time-zones and World time..

[Magnus Danielson]

Chuck Harris wrote:
> With the great ease of computers to make the transformations,
> there really isn't any point in removing local timezones.  It
> is just a table after all... it is nothing like the old days when
> every major town used Local Sidereal Time (eg. 12:00 is when the
> sun is at its highest).  That caused major problems for the
> railroads.

Which is the reason to coordinate it. Slightly off, but not too much for 
it to be a major obsticle.

> The biggest problem with local timezones is all of the continuously
> changing variations on Daylight Savings Time.  That accounts for
> the majority of the changes in the unix tz functions.

Having Daylight Saving Time as such is not as big issue as not having it 
coordinated between countries.

> It was recently reported that the onset of DST coincides with an
> increase in heart attacks, and the return to standard time coincides
> with a decrease in heart attacks.  Yet another reason to ditch
> Daylight Savings Time.

Interestingly enought, the decrease does not fully compensate the 
increase... so the net effect is an increase in heart attacks.

Cheers,
Magnus