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> (4) Daylight savings time. It's always annoys me whenever programmers complain about time zones and daylight savings time, because of the difficulty and inco
by DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> (4) Daylight savings time.
It's always annoys me whenever programmers complain about time zones and daylight savings time, because of the difficulty and inconvenience handling them in software. It's getting things backwards. Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software.
* That doesn't mean you can't have a simpler model that you translate to/from.
- richmarr 10y ago> Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software. Agreed, but my point is that daylight savings time is a huge human-world complexity that brings a marginal boost to some sectors. There are a ton of negative effects and I question whether there's a net benefit, even before all the software complexity needed to support it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Dispute_over_benefits_and_drawbacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Dispute_o...