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That’s probably a good reason to stick to wintertime in winter and not summertime (the EU decided to drop time ch ages 2x a year)

• vinay427 8y ago
  There isn't even a definite proposition yet for eliminating DST shifts. There is still a long way ahead for something like this to happen.
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  • paulie_a 8y ago
    Half of my last year is dealing with bugs related to dst. It needs to go away completely. It is a stupid and unnecessary concept. The proposition is very simple "we won't be shifting the clock by an hour, deal with it"
    • wruza 8y ago
      If paid, half of your year may be worth having dst, if it turns out to be important. Hope they make their best decision, since it may affect too many things. Btw, did you deal with it or it’s still a mess? Long ago I wrote a library that manages dst, leaps, even ancient calendar changes, for fun. Datetime is hard topic, but still manageable. What problems did you meet, specifically?
      • paulie_a 8y ago
        No it wasn't worth it. I'd rather work on actual projects instead of fixing undocumented nuances related to poorly implemented systems. Yes I got paid for it, I'd rather not deal with a never ending set of database queries in a legacy system. Specifically one problem was consistently being given incorrect info from a vendor, then incorrect specs and data that would not match with the first. How do you compare a day with 25 vs 24 hours. Tldr: fuck dst, it has no purpose and should go away.
• Tempest1981 8y ago
  The EU is still discussing it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45366390 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45366390 It might be on a per-country basis. So far 2/3 of the responses have been German. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/europe/eu-daylight-saving.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/europe/eu-daylight-...
• sctb 8y ago
  We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050349 and marked it off-topic.