"Permanent" DST
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Wed Mar 16 16:09:37 UTC 2022
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).
Owen
> On Mar 16, 2022, at 05:57 , Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>
> Always on or always off, I don't care which, just pick one and give sufficient lead time for development.
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL>
> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix>
> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg>
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com <mailto:jra at baylink.com>>
> To: "nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org> list" <nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:11:19 PM
> Subject: "Permanent" DST
>
> 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
>
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com <mailto:jra at baylink.com>
> Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
> Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info <http://www.bcp38.info/> 2000 Land Rover DII
> St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20220316/764094b1/attachment.html>
More information about the NANOG
mailing list