House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
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#2Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?
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Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#4Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?
They need to be updated anyway, and always have been: somewhere in the world, someone changes time rules basically every year, or even every few months. All current OSes already have support for stating "locale X will not use daylight savings / will always use daylight saving, starting from day yyyymmdd at hhmm" through simple updates.
Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#5Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?
An updated tz database.
Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#6Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?
Yes there’s databases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database that track this and that are included in libraries that do the arithmetics. It’s why those libraries are often relatively bulky.
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#7I finally built my side project and the government finally does something to make it pointless! Yay?
Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#8Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be updated to account for this change?
An updated tz database.
Or you set your timezone location to one that’s false, but matches what is now true (like Arizona, for example).
Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#9It still needs to pass the Senate.
Re: House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
#10Cool. We did this before 1974 and immediately went back, and I never understood why. I guess I'll find out.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-the-...