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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by WalterBright on Sunday April 17, 2016 @07:17PM (#11516796)
Daylight Savings Time should die in the fires of hell.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by themartorana on Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:27PM (#11517013)
I couldn't agree more - to boot, DST going away solves like half of the edge cases with one quick fix.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by justinator on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:23AM (#11517717)
Except that removing DST won't, if you ever need to calculate a time/date for any time before its (future, hypothetical) removable. That could actually create more bugs.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by Piskvorrr on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:26AM (#11518439)
Probably won't, historical DST switches (and TZ offsets) are already one of the edge cases a TZ library needs to deal with (I'm looking at you, Argentina!).
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones by mscman on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:10AM (#11520507)
We didn't have DST in most of Indiana until about 10 years ago. When we switched, most of us were wondering why the hell we were even doing it. It's really not necessary, it confuses people, leads to screwed up schedules when the switch happens, and the fact that there are still a few counties that don't observe it screws things up even more.
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