Well, that's actually a very precise explanation of DST in a nutshell: like other "simple hacks", it is very simple in theory. The complexity inherent in the va

Well, that's actually a very precise explanation of DST in a nutshell: like other "simple hacks", it is very simple in theory. The complexity inherent in the various details and in interacting with its surroundings (hello 2:00 AM, hello crontab) forces the hack maker and everyone else to invent more hacks, which gradually become less simple, until it's a tangled web of spaghetti hacks-upon-hacks-upon-hacks, with The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young dwelling somewhere in the middle of it all.