Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle

Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by petre on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:09AM (#20310769)

We have endless problems with DST as well. I can't wait for the EU directive that abolishes it. Russia dropped it years ago. We'll still have to support past times and other timezones though.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by meepso on Saturday June 29, 2019 @05:42AM (#20311674)

I wonder how long time it will take to forget DST if it is abolished. Will that messy spaghetti code be ripped out and never seen again.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by jon-wood on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:58AM (#20311891)

Most standard libraries still have support for the Julian calendar. That stuff is never going away.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by jki275 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @08:32AM (#20317858)

Julian calendar is still used by the US Navy. Every supply department office you go into has a conversion table up on the wall.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by mkl on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:08AM (#20312119)

I doubt it's "most". Python, Javascript, and C++ don't seem to. The only ones I found that do seem to are C# and Java.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by inlined on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:46PM (#20314684)

I just got a ruby gem from someone who actually made tables on the stuff. I made a script that cut out far past and future times to lower loading time from 10m to 30s and figured I could upgrade the gem to leverage an expert’s research as timezones changed (e.g. India changing zones)

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