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This is not novel. Look through the tzdb news and you will find many instances of similar and considerably shorter periods of notice. Just to pick a couple fro
by chrismorgan 4y ago
This is not novel. Look through the tzdb news and you will find many instances of similar and considerably shorter periods of notice.
Just to pick a couple from last year that are unambiguous and well-documented (most you’ll have at least a bit more trouble finding first-party announcement of):
2021d: Fiji gave a month’s notice on suspending DST for the season.
2021b: Samoa gave less than a week’s notice on cancelling DST.
I have a feeling there was a less-than-two-days’ notice a few years ago, but can’t be bothered hunting for it. But there are many more of things like “eh, we’re shifting the start or end by a day or two or a week or two, with less than ten days’ notice”.
- darrenf 4y agoI was tangentially affected by Pakistan deciding to extend DST in 2008 with very little notice. It was originally going to end on August 31, but I believe they decided on August 28 or so to extend it to October. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Pakistan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Paki... https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.h...
- avip 4y agoSamoa also famously skipped the 2011-12-30. Maybe "famously among software developers" is more on-point.
- bigmattystyles 4y agoWas this to move to the other side of the dateline or something?
- adjagu 4y agoYes. The time change, officially decided in June, is meant to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners; it moves the islands’ work days further from the United States, which dominated its economy in the past. [0] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220809080548/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/asia/samoa-to-skip-friday-and-switch-time-zones.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220809080548/https://www.nytim...