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After Russia cancelled DST, various websites (e.g. WolframAlpha) and software would return wrong time in Moscow for years. My phone's clock widget still gets it
by Grue3 10y ago
After Russia cancelled DST, various websites (e.g. WolframAlpha) and software would return wrong time in Moscow for years. My phone's clock widget still gets it wrong (I had to change my location to Kaliningrad). I don't think 3 days makes much difference.
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- JoeAltmaier 10y agoWhen Bush changed the date, our company had millions of hand-held wireless devices that had to be updated. To avoid that debacle again, we made them contact a DST server (instead of hard-coding the dates). Because updating handhelds was a miserable process requiring retrieving them all and docking them.
- jarman 10y agoRussia also doubled amount of DST related problems by first making DST shift permanent, then canceling it after couple of years.