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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by SahAssar on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:25AM (#24951722)
The West Bank has (had?) timezones that are based on ethnicity, not geographic location: https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/
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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by mjlee on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:32AM (#24951785)
Every time I consider this I'm reminded of an incident where 3 Israeli Arabs blew themselves up instead of their target, probably due to daylight savings time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clocks-change-kille...

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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by taliesinb on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:59AM (#24951970)
That’s straight out of Tintin and the Broken Ear, where a would-be terrorist blows himself up after a time change: https://imgur.com/gallery/27jxctY
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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by sdenton4 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:38PM (#24954055)
I have a collection of 'mistakes you make exactly once,' mistakes that are so obvious in retrospect and terrible in consequence that you would never, ever do it again.

This is a whole other class, though.

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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by hyiltiz on Saturday October 31, 2020 @03:39PM (#24954524)
Care to share? I am sure that would be very useful for me (and probably many others).
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