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Old 04-08-2013, 08:12 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
I noticed this too. This is really aggravating. Unix has been able to get the timezone right since long before Linux, let alone the Kindle, was ever thought of. The Kindle has not one but *two* copies of the Olson timezone database on it (one used by glibc, one by the JVM). But, despite that, it can't do daylight saving adjustment and we have to do it by hand like it was a wall clock. I guess it was too hard to have the Kindle ask what timezone you lived in or even the name of the country you lived in (which Amazon already knows)...

Pathetic. Just pathetic. Well done Amazon, a wonderful example of technology thirty years after its time.
I don't blame Kindle. I blame the nitwits who force us to adjust time twice a year because, well, because they can.
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