US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by clairity on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:32PM (#30690247)

for that, time zone boundaries should be straight lines rather than following arbitrary political whims. then you’d only have a half hour variance at most.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mark-r on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:00PM (#30690714)

And then you'd need to know your exact longitude to know what time it is - doesn't sound workable to me. Although it would make life easier for GPS makers.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by clairity on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:08PM (#30700579)

you'd still have 24 zones, but they'd be straight lines, not the crazy lines a 3-year-old might make that we have now.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by sokoloff on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:00PM (#30690709)

It seems extremely impractical for a city to be in two time zones.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by clairity on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:06PM (#30700544)

the problem isn't going around a city here or there (a few degree minutes), but the crazy meanderings for tens/hundreds of miles in either direction (a few to many degrees). some zone lines are so far off that they're two ideal zones away from where they should be.

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