Maybe a few months heads up would be nice. You know the world is integrated now: flights, trains, shipments etc. etc..
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.
Lol! What does muh democracy, which is crap anyway, have to do with beurocratic incompetence? Democracy is fast becoming the most annoying pushy thing
Texas has, in recent years, changed the dates at which they adopted DST more than once (it was something to do with Halloween trick-or-treating and candy lobbyists).
Sorry, what? edit: to answer my own question: there are some rumors about candy manufacturers influencing legislators to implement dst after Halloween so more children would partake and they would make more money. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Texas in particular and might not be true at all. But please correct me if I'm wrong. https://www.romper.com/p/the-crazy-weird-reason-daylight-sav...
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?
Well, I have an active social life, and I'm not a big fan of working in the evening, so sure I can adjust it, but it's frustrating. 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.
Quite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people
Tangent: what's the purpose of closing the financial markets overnight? Why not just have them open all the time?
Surely thats a regulation thing, not an actual desire by the market.
Quite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people
Tangent: what's the purpose of closing the financial markets overnight? Why not just have them open all the time?
Because market participants (i.e. brokers) need to 'mark to market'. That is, they need to transfer the net of their gains and losses to counter-parties. This occurs after the market close. To have continuously trading markets would require changing the supporting systems and regulations that support this.
Tangent: what's the purpose of closing the financial markets overnight? Why not just have them open all the time?
Surely thats a regulation thing, not an actual desire by the market.
That just shifts the question around. Why, as king, would you want to make sure that there's a period every day when no one is supposed to trade financial instruments?
Surely thats a regulation thing, not an actual desire by the market.
That just shifts the question around. Why, as king, would you want to make sure that there's a period every day when no one is supposed to trade financial instruments?
Because the king doesn't want to take the responsiblity of overlooking the transactions everyday: just when he feels like it.
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?
> 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…
Hrm, thinking through this more, one of those guys from IT, Ryan, a big-hearted (literally) lumberjack of a guy died of congestive heart failure. Then our CEO died on his bicycle a few years back, and there was also a suicide of one of the developers. It was a cursed company.