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Governments can do what they like, by and large. Just because it's crazy doesn't mean they won't, and nothing about physical reality prevents them from doing th
by NateEag 8y ago
Governments can do what they like, by and large. Just because it's crazy doesn't mean they won't, and nothing about physical reality prevents them from doing this.
I'm not aware of any specific examples, so perhaps I'm being too paranoid in my first post, but it would not surprise me in the least to hear of, for example, a bill to eliminate DST in a state that somehow manages not to pass until a day or three after the DST change takes effect.
There have at least been some some bizarre calendar changes that many software systems fail to accommodate, which probably feeds into my above paranoia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
https://mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipped-11-days-1752 https://mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skip...