Morocco abruptly drops clock change
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Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change
#2I assume a out-of-band Windows update will be imminent then. Half of out-of-band Windows updates are zero-days, the other half are frantic attempts to cope with countries changing their time zones on short notice.
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#3Obligatory link to the tireless volunteers who maintain the timezone databases and cope with the last minute, sometimes even retrospective timezone changes.
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#4Maybe a few months heads up would be nice. You know the world is integrated now: flights, trains, shipments etc. etc..
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#5US should do the same. Drop DST please! but not abruptly with a Trumpy Tweet.
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#6I'd also like to see New England move to Atlantic Standard Time. I was there last winter and it got dark before 5pm!
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#8Aren't enough clocks connected to the internet that the clock change could happen gradually rather than abruptly?
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#9Aren't enough clocks connected to the internet that the clock change could happen gradually rather than abruptly?
You could do something like Google has done with the Leap Smear on a larger scale, but the better question is why does the clock change need to happen at all? There's really no reason for it.
It would be vastly easier for businesses which wish to let their employees out early enough to enjoy the sunlight to change their hours for a few months than for the entirety of society to change their sense of time.
Also, you'd be surprised how many clocks are not Internet-connected, as a lot of people still rely on clocks on their microwave, oven, car radio, etc. And in my case, I am absolutely reliant on one (or, often, like three) completely dumb alarm clocks, because they aren't subject to the whims of my phone doing dumb things like not ringing when it should.
Re: Morocco abruptly drops clock change
#10Can't imagine any part of Africa would benefit from daylight savings changes. Morocco only fluctuates between 10h and 14h of daylight at its extremes.