Re:Timezone Bullshit
by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:45PM
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To be fair, the polling went largly unnoticed (at least in France). I discovered it by chance in the middle of summer, shortly before it got closed.
Then the results were published and a few people were pissed off for not having been informed.
OTOH, it would have had been a discussion for 20 years otherwise.
I am happy we just have one tole shift left (to move to summer time, yay for me because I am on the western edge of a timezone)
I don't think anyone other than programmers thinks DST is not a huge pain in the ass.
Twice a year your bodyclock gets screwed up and you risk getting to work at the wrong time; once a year you even get a shorter night of sleep.
In Europe (hardly "programmer's country"), it took very simple polling to discover that DST was hugely unpopular. The population at large simply does not benefit, it was introduced for the good of industry and we're largely leaving behind that world. Good riddance.