"Permanent" DST

Wed Mar 16 17:41:36 UTC 2022

----- 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?

Cheers,
-- jra
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