Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft...
by richmarr on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:23AM
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> Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software.
Agreed, but my point is that daylight savings time is a huge human-world complexity that brings a marginal boost to some sectors. There are a ton of negative effects and I question whether there's a net benefit, even before all the software complexity needed to support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Dispute_o...
It's always annoys me whenever programmers complain about time zones and daylight savings time, because of the difficulty and inconvenience handling them in software. It's getting things backwards. Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software.
* That doesn't mean you can't have a simpler model that you translate to/from.