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I'll add one: "But surely each place only has one DST each year…" Nope. Troll Station in Antarctica has four different settings through the year. Personally s

by jws 11y ago

I'll add one: "But surely each place only has one DST each year…" Nope. Troll Station in Antarctica has four different settings through the year. Personally since there are only 40 people there I think they should just suck it up and pick two. They are probably causing a lot of software bugs. I know they cost me a couple hours. Edit: Oh crum, I see Morocco suspends DST during Ramadan, so they have four settings too… and 33 million people. I can't ask that many people to change, it would take too long.

mistermann 11y ago
Not only that, but some countries change the switchover dates from time to time as well.
majewsky 11y ago
"I can't ask that many people to change, it would take too long." Made my day. There is this famous conversation-starter: "If you could enact one law, what would be it?" I always say that I would force the US to ditch imperial units, the Fahrenheit scale, and whatever other wonky specialties they've come up with that just confuse programmers everywhere. Also, let's get rid of DST entirely.