Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by hunter2_ on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:45AM (#24951882)

I doubt anyone wants something to occur twice, but they might have an opinion on whether a 1:30am job should occur on the first 1:30am or the second 1:30am in the fall change. For the spring change, I think all jobs scheduled between 2am and 3am (a period that collapses into a moment) should ideally occur at said moment, but I can see how a smear might be more practical in many cases.

I don't recall how `cron` and other schedulers handle it, though.

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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by zwily on Saturday October 31, 2020 @11:03AM (#24951993)

Every software service I’ve worked on has had issues around DST transitions. That’s really the only programming benefit I see for getting rid of it going forward.

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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @11:25AM (#24952171)

I worked at a big tech company for half a decade, and without fail, every year there was some kind of serious bug caused by DST.

Things either happened twice or never, it was always really painful. In any growth company, I would imagine that these things keep occurring, as people haven't hit the bugs themselves yet.

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