"Permanent" DST

Wed Mar 16 18:33:32 UTC 2022

> On Mar 16, 2022, at 10:41 , Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> 
>> No development really necessary… Just pick the corresponding standard-time
>> timezone and turn off the DST flip flopping.
>> 
>> E.g. if you are in California and go always-on, then simply mark it as MST year
>> round.
>> (i.e. just like you’re in Arizona today, which is MST year round, no DST).
> 
> And... Owen illustrates my initial rhetoric about "moving to the east 15
> degrees".
> 
> Have we not learned, yet, the "don't lie to the computers" rule?
> 
> How *would* the timezone libraries handle "DST always on"? They would still
> have to flap, twice a year, right?

Uh, no. they wouldn’t.

MST with DST off == PDT year round.

Simple. No semi-annual change required.

If you don’t want to lie to the computer, then all one needs to do is rename the corresponding
timezone files…

MST becomes the new PST file, etc.

Of course at some point, the timezone files went weird and started getting named after cities instead of timezones, so
the renaming is a little less intuitive, but it’s still doable.

Owen