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Re: Daylight Saving Time

  • Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:20:50 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
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Logan Shaw wrote:

> Rob van Vliet wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>>> I _manually_ add Daylight Saving dates to my Datebook. I do so every
>>> year.
>>> Apart from in exceptional countries, this happens on the last Sunday of
>>> October and the last Sunday of March (today). How can I make this a
>>> repeating event?
> 
>> Make it a repeating event, Monthly, every 12 months, repeat by day
> 
> If do that, how do you tell it to make it the *last* Sunday of the
> month instead of the fourth Sunday?  If you do 4th Sunday, it'll be
> wrong in March 2008 and March 2009, which both have 5 Sundays each.
> 
> Probably the easiest thing is to just program it in manually for
> the next 10 years or something, i.e. non-repeating.
> 
> Or program in a reminder on the 4th Sunday of every March that says
> "Time change on the last Sunday of this month".  Since there are
> always no less than 4 Sundays in a month, it should always warn
> you in time, although some of the time it will warn you an extra
> week early.

Thanks Logan. That's what I did and I'm quite happy with it. I have a few of
these "Update Palm to include..." entries and even though it's not ideal,
it allows me to keep my mind blank.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

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