Since I haven't been blogging very regularly for the past 6 months, my blog on daylight savings in the US (November) appears only 3 entries ago. Now Pakistan is also trying Franklin's experiment, a second time. As before, there is much mayhem and confusion. If everyone agreed to set their clocks forward by an hour then the answer to 'what is the time?' would be as clear as day. But not everyone agrees (we keep talking about 'old time' and 'new time'), least of all our electronic devices which stay faithfully tuned to Pakistan's default timezone.
So what to do? No, I'm not worried about agreement (this isn't a democracy, after all). But what timezone do I set my computers and phones to? Either I disable NTP (network time protocol -- so that the device updates its time regularly from the network), or I set the time manually. Erk! Manually? What is this, 1978?
I searched Google for 'world timezones', and the first link to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock suggests that Pakistan is in fact in dst (daylight saving time)! Wow. Also, Mobilink seems to have updated their network time so my Mobilink phone is on dst. UFone hadn't updated till this morning, but let's see.
Now how to convince my computer that Pakistan is now dst? I've updated Ubuntu with a bunch of differnet timeservers around the world, but no luck yet. Let's wait and see... otherwise, I'll be asking the question 'ubuntu time or new time?'
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Let me add that I in fact like daylight savings... 8am feels like morning. Problem is that I want to go biking from 5am - 7am, which I can't anymore, because it's too dark at 5am, and too much traffic at 7am. :(
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