"Permanent" DST

Dave dedelman at iname.com
Tue Mar 15 20:10:02 UTC 2022


Folks for most systems, this is a change to a single file. Not a really hard thing to accomplish

Dave

> On Mar 15, 2022, at 3:19 PM, Dave <dedelman at iname.com> wrote:
> 
> Ending DST is a really good idea. 
> 
> Moving 15 degrees East not so much but let’s face it, the environmental impact statement will take forever to write
> 
> Dave
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2022, at 3:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would
>> 
>> 1) Cancel DST permanently, and
>> 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east.
>> 
>> My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric.  Hopefully, it will
>> fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and even
>> if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult.
>> 
>> I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on...
>> 
>> Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their
>> decision on this engineering construct.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>> 
>> -- 
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