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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dan-robertson on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:09PM (#30692541)
I work in Europe and have colleagues in the east coast of the US. The dst switches happen a few weeks apart so twice a year everyone gets fucked up schedules for two weeks because meetings move with the time zone of the person who created them. We have specialised tooling to notice if computer programs will behave weirdly because a job is scheduled to run during the hour of the night that happens twice/not at all (obviously one solution is to avoid scheduling jobs in local time but if you need to react with the real world where things are scheduled in local time, this becomes harder).
Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by joshspankit on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:30PM (#30692795)
Literally just had this happen this week: We have a standing meeting between NA and London, and I thought we would have to have a talk when they were showing up “an hour late”.

Turns out we all just forgot the offset changed between us.

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by dahfizz on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:45PM (#30694291)
It's bad enough that we have the DST clock change, but the fact that the UK and US does the change at different times truly drives me insane.
Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by inlined on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:05PM (#30694885)
Iirc Bush (Jr) did this by changing the switchover time
Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by seanp2k2 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @03:12AM (#30696107)
It’s great; I have a clock that does “auto DST”. The problem is that it does it on the UK dates or the pre-Bush dates. I’m in the US. I therefore have to set it manually 4x/year instead of the 0x/ever as designed.
Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by IanCal on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:05PM (#30693109)
I messed this up with a call to the US today.