[tz] Portland buses remain behind the times

Aaron Brown asb110273 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 05:48:40 UTC 2013


The author of that article has it wrong. The clock on the bus will
tell them they are early, not that they are late.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Digital readerboards on older TriMet buses in Portland won't
> reflect yesterday's DST switch until April, because they're
> based on an old dispatch system programmed years ago when
> DST began in April.  The old system is no longer supported
> and TriMet says it can't be changed.  So the clocks will be
> off by an hour for a month, just like last March.  See:
>
> Rose J. Daylight Saving Time: TriMet clocks,
> Monday morning commute might have trouble adjusting.
> Portland Oregonian 2013-03-09
> <http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2013/03/daylight_saving_time_trimet_cl.html>


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