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Re:Timezone Bullshit by jmgao on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:08AM (#26088149)
> both The USA and Canada have been toying with the idea of dropping daylight savings time

Individual states are toying with the idea as well [1], which presents a problem if one of the tzdata locations decides to change its rules. You're screwed no matter what you choose to do. :-(

1: https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/11/state-senator-introdu...

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Re:Timezone Bullshit by Izkata on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:57PM (#26092529)
It gets worse: DST in Indiana has to be handled on a per-county basis for anything prior to 2006.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana

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Re:Timezone Bullshit by spiralx on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:58PM (#26097351)
It gets worse: from when I had to deal with this some years back IIRC in Saudi Arabia the start and end of DST is set by decree every year.
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Re:Timezone Bullshit by siculars on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:06AM (#26088561)
They already do. See Arizona.
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Re:Timezone Bullshit by 1-more on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:20PM (#26092854)
…and then see Navajo reservation in there, and then see the Hopi reservation inside of that!
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