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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.
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But you don't need to shift everyone else's schedule, only your own. The easiest way to shift your own schedule is just to shift it.
Yeah, I will just shift my kids classes in school and clubs unilaterally an hour down. Or opening hours in shop I want to go to. And move meeting and buss needed to go to places and what not. And shift or service worker will just come an hour later, no big deal.
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Time zones in the US are a matter for the sovereign states, not the federal government. There already exists at least one US member state that doesn’t practice DST: Arizona.
Interestingly, this is an enumerated power under the U.S. Constitution. Article 1 section 8 explicitly grants Congress the power to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
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Even then the states don't really have control. Me and my friends can decide to do whatever we want. We listen to the government because it's hard to coordinate and no one else has stepped up. No one really has any control.
In practice, yes they do have control. If Oregon decides tomorrow to officially give up DST, then everyone in Oregon would start using that new time zone. Not sure what point you’re making other than that in general, the existence of states depends on people recognizing them and following their rules, which is true but doesn’t have much to do with DST specifically.
it’s really not a state vs federal thing because neither enforces it.
sure youd need to follow i it for state related hours, but that’s it.
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> 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.
Thank you for the VERY frank responses, I appreciate the effort and the time. As a follow-up question, do you think the 100 hour weeks had diminishing returns after what point, if at all? Also, how is the work-life balance in Turkey in general?
Again, my condolences on your losses.
PROGRAMMERS: We have timezone homework to do again :/
No you don't. Only the maintainer of tzdata. All we have to do is make sure we use an up-to-date version of tzdata, which all modern operating systems do automatically (although probably not quite before tomorrow).