[Remind-Fans] DST

[Andrew Poth]

Not an English teacher, or even would-be teacher.  I'm an electronics
design engineer, but heavily involved with technical documentation for
over 35 years.  Anyone who's ever worked in high tech, especially on
defense contracts, knows the extent of nitpicking over language and
grammar that goes into drawing up technical specifications.  I've also
learned that in computer programming a single misplaced character in the
source code can mean the difference between success and failure.

Reid Thompson wrote:
> echo 'And here I thought "I" was the only English teacher crazy enough to use Linux' | sed 's/crazy/smart/'

Rod Johnson wrote:
> And here I thought "I" was the only English teacher crazy enough to use Linux
> :-D

Bob Paver wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Are you a would be english teacher, as I am? I made the same correction just recently. Perhaps you listen to the Grammar Girl podcasts as I do.
>
> Nitpicking away,
> Bob
>
> On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Andrew Poth wrote:
>
>> Minor point, but it's properly called "Daylight Saving Time", not "Daylight Savings Time".
>>
>> The corrected lines would be:
>> FSET _last(mo) "1 " + MON((mo%12)+1) + " --7"
>> REM Sun Apr 1 ++2 UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST starts%" %b
>> REM Sun Mar 8 ++2 FROM 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST starts%" %b
>>
>> REM Sun [_last(10)] UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST over%" %b
>> REM Sun 1 Nov FROM 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Saving Time - %"DST over%" %b
>>
>> Also, a correction on line 565 of the remind-03.01.12 WHATSNEW file might be considered.
>>
>> IS:
>> daylight savings time
>>
>> SHOULD BE:
>> Daylight Saving Time
>>
>> Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-savings-time.html
>>
>>
>> On 03/14/2012 08:29 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
>>> FSET _last(mo) "1 " + MON((mo%12)+1) + " --7"
>>> REM Sun Apr 1 ++2 UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST starts%" %b
>>> REM Sun Mar 8 ++2 FROM 1 Jan 2007 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST starts%" %b
>>>
>>> REM Sun [_last(10)] UNTIL 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%" %b
>>> REM Sun 1 Nov FROM 1 Jan 2007 ++2 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%" %b
>