[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2012-03-05 22:49:
> On 3/5/2012 3:31 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> (snip)
>>>> This seems most peculiar! What legal theory holds that a manufacturer in,
>>>> say, France, has a duty to supply right hand drive vehicles for use in the
>>>> UK? It may be profitable for them to do so but I have trouble
>>>> seeing a duty there.
>>
>>>> It's my understanding that this situation is ancient history,
>>
>>> Driving on the wrong side? I don't think so. :-)
>>
>>>> the Brits finally joined the rest of the world. Seems to me
>>>> it was twenty or more years ago.
>>
>> They joined the rest of the world using (mostly) metric units
>> and a decimal based currency about 40 years ago, but still drive
>> on that other side.
>>
>> It must be interesting to go into the chunnel on one side of
>> the road, and come out on the other.
>>
>> -- glen
>>
>
> ISTR that some country changed from "keep left" to "keep right".
> Maybe it was Japan. ISTR also that all vehicular traffic with the exception
> of emergency vehicles was prohibited while "Keep Left"
> signs were changed to "Keep Right" and any other changes required.
>
> AFAIR The change took place without casualties.
>

Sweden switched from left to right side driving in 1967.
There was a close to whole night stop in driving while
the signes was changed. At one moment everyone had to park
on the side of the road (left side then). Then a couple of hours
later, everyone should simply move the car over and park on the
right side. Finaly, another couple of hours later, you where
allowed to drived again, this time on the right.