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Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#31

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Honestly don’t even care at this point, would take either way to end this nonsense.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#32

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

When it’s scarce you want to waste it on the early morning?

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#33

Incoming mass patching of any and all Date/Time libraries

Which production-ready datetime library doesn't use zoneinfo? There should be no need to patch otherwise there would be quite a lot of patching happening each year. The current version is 2021e, meaning it's the 5th iteration for 2021.

Notably Fiji decided to not use DST in 2021/2022 but apparently plans to resume using it afterwards.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#34

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

This would give us an "extra hour" of sunlight in the evening during the winter.

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#35
post #21

Incoming mass patching of any and all Date/Time libraries

Oh, we've changed them so many times at this point. In the 2000s we changed the dates that we move the clocks back and forth. This is probably just a configuration update.

>probably just a configuration update.

famous last words

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#36
post #21

Incoming mass patching of any and all Date/Time libraries

Oh, we've changed them so many times at this point. In the 2000s we changed the dates that we move the clocks back and forth. This is probably just a configuration update.

The zoneinfo files describe the rules, past, present and future

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#37

Won’t take effect until 2023, but good to see it happen.

Can you explain to me why this is good. It seems like a pain, but I assume there must be a good reason for it. Does it truly save energy? Is this documented somewhere?

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#39

Hot take: permenant daylight time not permanent standard time because nightowls are more common than they used to be.

I prefer having more daylight in the evening. I never really understood the opposite argument.

Really? Seems pretty straight forward. For early risers it's nice to wake up to the sun...

I think it comes down to, "what do I prefer"

Re: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

#40

Such a terrible idea compared to permanent standard time. There is plenty of light during the summer, so there's no need to optimize for that. The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Honestly don’t even care at this point, would take either way to end this nonsense.

Let's not be hasty; we could use math to accelerate time itself. Right? Right??
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