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It's also worth mentioning Argentina, "Argentina determines whether to observe daylight saving time on a year-by-year basis, and individual provinces may opt o
by dyadic 12y ago
It's also worth mentioning Argentina,
"Argentina determines whether to observe daylight saving time on a year-by-year basis, and individual provinces may opt out of the federal decision. At present, Argentina does not observe daylight saving time."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Argentina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Argentina
- dvirsky 12y agoIn Israel the topic of daylight saving time is subject to weird religious power struggles, and basically how long DST lasts depends on how much political power the ultra-religious parties have in the current parliament coalition (the more powerful they are, the less DST we get). This causes problems with automatic time zone shifts in phones, in cases where the OS doesn't get updated with this year's date range changes. Just this year some versions of Android had to set the time-zone to Athens for a few weeks.
- MichaelGG 12y agoIs it incompetence, arrogance, ignorance, or ? that'd lead them to making such annoying decisions? Argentina doesn't have a nutty religion forcing them to do this right?
- dyadic 12y agoI don't know. I'm not from here, just living here for a few months. But I'd say none of the above. The country is huge and could easily cover more than one timezone, I'd hazard a guess at political reasons based on that, but don't take me as an authority because I'm not