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Greenland Is Now on Permanent Daylight Savings
- EricE 4y agoArizona also does not change - very jealous.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoPermanent standard time is different than permanent savings time. But both are better than switching.
- runarberg 4y agoIt is indeed very interesting to see that Greenland decided to go with permanent savings rather than permanent standard. Neighboring Iceland has been on permanent savings for over half a century and there have been heavy discussions around the public health issues that creates (particularly around sleep deprived teenagers). I’m sure the Naalakkersuisut is aware of this but still decided to go with permanent savings. This article does mention that this brings closer to timezones in Europe (Ittoqqortoormiit which observes its own timezone will then be on the same timezone as Iceland), so perhaps that weight heavily on the decision.
- runarberg 4y agoI am aware that not many people on HN can read Kalaallisut, there is a danish version of the same article here (https://sermitsiaq.ag/historisk-skifte-sommertid https://sermitsiaq.ag/historisk-skifte-sommertid) as well as a different news article which sources this one in Icelandic (https://www.ruv.is/frettir/erlent/2023-03-26-graenlendingar-flyta-klukkunni-i-eitt-skipti-fyrir-oll https://www.ruv.is/frettir/erlent/2023-03-26-graenlendingar-...).
- jillesvangurp 4y agoAnd that includes Google Translate apparently. Chat GPT on the other hand seems able to translate it. Pretty amazing that it can handle a language that has less than 100000 speakers.