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Yes, stuff should be, but a 15 minute adjustment within a zone suddenly is going to screw a lot of devices. Not everything that consumes UTC is internet-connec
by mlyle 2y ago
Yes, stuff should be, but a 15 minute adjustment within a zone suddenly is going to screw a lot of devices. Not everything that consumes UTC is internet-connected.
Heck, every existing radio-derived clock that presents time to users would be obsolete (lots of GPS, WWV/DCF watches, etc).
A lot of them have TZ-related breakage, but they usually let you set a manual hour offset or consume a daylight flag.
- School-Cotton 2y agoI think you are underestimating how long the scales are here. It could take 1000 years to be off by 15 minutes. By this time every electronic device that exists today will be either gone or in a museum.
- mlyle 2y agoI know it's a long time. But it's probably more like 200-250 years or so to be off by half of 15 minutes (which presumably is when you'd do a 15 minute step). And it might be a lot less than this. In any case, I think frequent, well-tested procedures are better than an exceptional procedure on the order of decades or centuries.
- naniwaduni 2y agoThe point is that it is a frequent, well-tested procedure, because governments decide they want to be in a different time zone (or have different DST rules) all the time.
- mlyle 2y agoYes, but as stated-- 15 minute offset changes is a very infrequent procedure, and not every device consumes new tz data. > > > but a 15 minute adjustment within a zone suddenly is going to screw a lot of devices" There's a whole lot of devices where all you get is a manual hour offset and a daylight flag for outdated tz data.