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Somewhat related: Europe/Dublin has a negative DST offset. Irish DST runs through the European winter (i.e. the opposite of the other European timezones).
(More details here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56743#issuecomment-13157... )
Edit: To be clear: the quote is referring to a negative DST start, rather than a negative DST offset.
He has been to Lord Howe. Now I know why. He has a user account on HN. I will ask him if he wants to make an appearance here...
Nah, the weirdest time zone is Africa/Addis_Ababa, which nobody in Ethiopia follows. Instead the locals offset the time by 6 hours. So the AM cycle starts at dawn (i.e. 6am), and the PM cycle starts at dusk (i.e. 6pm). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ethiopia
Sounds like it could be a candidate. Any system which can't be expressed in standard software is stranger than every system that can be.
Oddly was just reading something yesterday and it mentioned that in the UK there were years during the war where we had double DST for energy saving reasons. (although we went between 1 hour and 2 hours, so it was only really a change compared to the norm) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-extreme-daylight-s...
I found this pretty funny, but a spot on solution. The solar/calendar features of Emacs are surprisingly robust and easy to work with.
Nah, the weirdest time zone is Africa/Addis_Ababa, which nobody in Ethiopia follows. Instead the locals offset the time by 6 hours. So the AM cycle starts at dawn (i.e. 6am), and the PM cycle starts at dusk (i.e. 6pm). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ethiopia
Oddly was just reading something yesterday and it mentioned that in the UK there were years during the war where we had double DST for energy saving reasons. (although we went between 1 hour and 2 hours, so it was only really a change compared to the norm) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-extreme-daylight-s...
I don't really understand how that would save energy. Did people work 7am-3pm days or something?
Oddly was just reading something yesterday and it mentioned that in the UK there were years during the war where we had double DST for energy saving reasons. (although we went between 1 hour and 2 hours, so it was only really a change compared to the norm) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-extreme-daylight-s...
I don't really understand how that would save energy. Did people work 7am-3pm days or something?
Of course offices, factories and even schools still use artificial lighting even during daylight hours. And now the energy use of artificial lighting is much lower than back when everything used filament.
This one appears to have been published in the summer of 2024.