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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by salawat on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:13PM (#30689838)
Not for me. I prefer timekeeping libraries to not have to be changed. Ever. If they have to, should be simplified. If simifying, it should be in a way that doesn't cause grammatical issues.

Which this does, because now DST is now the standard time.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dhritzkiv on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:34PM (#30690264)
Nothing about timekeeping is simple, with or without this change. Not only do some regions already not observe DST (even within the same state/region); some switch to/from DST at different times of year (and this date changes from year to year).

For a timekeeping library (which likely uses a system-level source of data / the IANA tz database) this shouldn't have any effect.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by salawat on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:04PM (#30691700)
Never in my career is there more chaos than around any type of change having to do with timekeeping.

It shouldn't be a big deal. Inevitably though, it always seems to bring the bugs out of the woodwork.

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