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Its crazy to me that this style of thinking is re-surging. Between this and recent nationalist movements, I'm concerned that our generation will be responsible for a regression in progress.
What's 'crazy' is that people would think this is crazy. Or even a new idea or an idea that ever went away. And what does this have to do with Nationalism? Nothing. Someone suggests something not normative and people yell 'Trump'? Consider how South Korea, Japan, France, UK, Germany, Poland, Belgium were re-built after the war? It was mostly centrally planned management by powers, taking a lot of orders from Washingt…
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Still "Peking" in german.
Same in France, it's still "Pékin", I suspect Beijing will never take off since it's harder to pronounce.
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...
I like daylight savings time, but I think it would be easier to just go to work an hour earlier.
Türkiye 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?
Turkey is a bird. The Turkish word for Turkey is Hindi (which is funny, because the Turkish word for India is Hindistan, -stan means country, so a literal translation of Hindistan is "Country of Turkey")
Türkiye is the Turkish spelling for the Republic of Turkey.
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It’s the native spelling, a bit like Beijing vs Peking. I reckon he’s a Turk and so he’s entitled to call his homeland what he wants :)
Funnily, I am the Turk in this conversation. I asked because I just found it weird. Not questioning anyone's entitlement^^
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No, the native spelling is 北京. Beijing and Peking are two different foreign spellings. The commenter who called it Türkiye claims to be from the USA in his or her bio.
The original commenter's HN profile links to his LI account here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nomadicengineer/ . He states that he lives in Turkey currently, but spent a lot of time in the US. Most famously, the commenter was the only sysadmin for frickin' Napster! Wow! So, yeah, he's legit! Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period?
I was the "only" sysadmin when I was at Napster (We had 2 people in desktop support/it, one of whom actually died a few years later. The guy I replaced, Stephen Fountain, was actually shot to death by police). We hired 2 more a week or two before I left. It was a shit-show that I prefer to forget. (I'm also not at all proud of my work there. I was an unprofessional, somewhat incompetent 19 year-old workaholic who worked 100 hours a week and did a half-assed job at everything, which in the end actually was a huge net-negative to the organization, and myself!)
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I think that’s the only real objection to this move. Any country is entitled to do what it wants regarding DST, but transitions should be orderly and planned well in advance, not imposed from one day to the next. I guess it shows how Morocco is not exactly a democratic country, so you get the classic tyrant-style decision-making here and there.
> I guess it shows how Morocco is not exactly a democratic country, so you get the classic tyrant-style decision-making here and there. It has nothing to do with Democracy but incompetence. Many people think that democracy brings modernity and order. It is really the other way around.
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I propose we solve the obesity crisis by shifting all weights by 10kg down.
I don't particularly agree with the OP but I hope you realize that mass/weight has a clear 0 point, whereas time modulus one day does not.