US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by NaturalPhallacy on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:21PM (#30692683)

I've never known anyone who wasn't a programmer who even knew the difference between say, PST and PDT. Like, if they didn't schedule it through a computer with up to date timezone code, I would confirm verbally.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Izkata on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:08AM (#30695218)

I've gotten into the habit of naming the location like "4pm Chicago time". It's a lot less confusing in general because most people here aren't very solid on what the time zones are on the other side of the Atlantic (going both ways), even disregarding any DST-type changes.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by was_a_dev on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:52AM (#30696633)

Would it be any easier to say UTC-8?

In Europe it is more common, but I suppose that is because centralising around UTC is much easier when you're -1/+4

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by shepherdjerred on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:11PM (#30693640)

Oh my God this explains so much of my confusion with timestamps. I didn't even know there was a difference.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mkr-hn on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:42PM (#30695077)

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time

Someone with experience dealing with this needs to write it.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by alanbernstein on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:49PM (#30695115)

Needs to write what? https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... ?

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