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> For example, sunset is a little after 4:00 PM in Boston in late December. If we stuck with daylight savings time, it'd be a little after 3:00 This is backwar
by magicalist 11y ago
> For example, sunset is a little after 4:00 PM in Boston in late December. If we stuck with daylight savings time, it'd be a little after 3:00
This is backwards. Sunset would be later, at about 5:15PM (the problem would be late sunrise in the morning). For instance, sunset on October 31 in Boston this year will be 5:40PM EDT, but on November 1 it will be 4:39 EST.
You did, however, demonstrate another fantastic reason to rid ourselves of changing our clocks: mass confusion twice a year :)
- mjevans 11y agoMore than that; you're forgetting about locale specific DST rules. It is increasingly common for DST to be observed at different times in different countries. Then there are also places (such as Arizona) that don't observe DST at all as well. This is a mess that can only be solved by isolating 'meeting' and 'appointment' times from local time. For local time you might specify X on date Y, but the software should, at the time of input, convert that to an actual hard time (in UTC).