"Permanent" DST

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Mar 15 21:30:21 UTC 2022


Oh.  This was "Unanimous Consent"?  AKA "I want to vote for this, but *I do
not want to be held responsible for having voted for it when it blows up*?"

I'd missed that; thanks.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher at beecher.cc>
> To: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com>
> Cc: "nanog at nanog.org list" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:04:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST

> I would say if something passes the United States Senate in our current
> political environment by unanimous consent (which this did) , I kinda feel
> like there won't be a ton of issues with everybody figuring out how to line
> themselves up appropriately.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is true but at present everything business related in BC has a clear
>> expectation of being in the same time zone as WA/OR/CA, and AB matches US
>> Mountain time.
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 13:35, Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2 at dragon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> eric> If Canada doesn't do the same thing at the same time, it'll be a
>>> eric> real hassle, dealing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing the
>>> eric> border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done
>>> eric> consistently throughout North America.
>>>
>>> You must not have ever dealt with Indiana, where it was DST or not by
>>> choice per county. It wasn't quite the cluster***k you'd think.
>>>

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