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A comment on American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time. Parent comment

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by stoolpigeon on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:14AM (#24314035)
I had an Oracle RAC cluster and a number of PeopleSoft servers that were incredibly difficult to get successfully patched for that change.

The other super annoying thing about it is it created a window at the beginning and end of DST where the US is out of sync with most of Europe.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by realityking on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:30AM (#24314627)
I never understood how it came to be that the two biggest economic blocks with a ton of business between them didn’t manage to align on this. Thank you for finally giving me the context.
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