Brazil abruptly decided to delay the start of daylight savings time by a few weeks due to elections and a number of (unpatched?) Android phones showed the wrong time:
https://androidcommunity.com/brazils-dst-change-inadvertentl...
Morocco abruptly drops clock change
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#12Aren't enough clocks connected to the internet that the clock change could happen gradually rather than abruptly?
Two different things. There is the clock which tracks the time (simplifying here), and the timezone data that helps display the clock. Changing observances requires you to push an update to computers to tell them that humans have decided to change the rendering of the time but the time itself does not change.
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#13Can't imagine any part of Africa would benefit from daylight savings changes. Morocco only fluctuates between 10h and 14h of daylight at its extremes.
Morocco in particular would benefit from synchronizing time changes with Spain as a major trade partner.
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#14I'd also like to see New England move to Atlantic Standard Time. I was there last winter and it got dark before 5pm!
I love this idea, though I suspect economic ties to NYC will prevent it.
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#15Obligatory link to the tireless volunteers who maintain the timezone databases and cope with the last minute, sometimes even retrospective timezone changes. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-October/027099.html
example retroactive change: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-October/027092.html
this stuff really is fascinating
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#16Aren'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…
> 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.
Actually it wouldn't, because businesses have their hours set based upon the entirety of society's sense of time.
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#17I'm glad they decided to keep summer time. I live in fear that we'll decide to abolish DST but keep the darker evenings all year round.
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#18Türkiye did this a few years ago. Working remotely from here for a California company has been less than fun during the winter as my work day now ends at 21:00, severely hampering evening social / music outings.
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#19I don't like DST and think that instead the time zone offset should be set so that 12:00 is at approximately solar noon, and then count the seconds without changing for DST or anything else.
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#20Türkiye did this a few years ago. Working remotely from here for a California company has been less than fun during the winter as my work day now ends at 21:00, severely hampering evening social / music outings.
You are working remotely, I'm sure you will find the flexibility to adjust your working hours by at least 1-2 hours?
By the way, is there a reason you called it Türkiye instead of Turkey?