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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by IgorPartola on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:46PM (#30694299)
Why? If you know you wake up at 3am to get to work at 4am and get out of work at noon, then go to sleep at 7pm and you do this every single day then who cares that it doesn’t line up with some magical other numbers?
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by lxgr on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:50PM (#30694345)
The notion of days (as today, tomorrow and yesterday) does not really make sense without time zones.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by eru on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:37AM (#30695369)
It's not so much about today, tomorrow, yesterday or even days of the week. The bigger problem is perhaps with calendar days?

At least if you want your day boundary line up with midnight on the clock.

It would be hilarious to have everyone run on UTC, but have the calendar tick over whenever it's local midnight.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by IgorPartola on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:45AM (#30698738)
You ever run backups every Sunday at 2am UTC? Does that ever confuse you or the computer doing it’s job? If not, the problem you describe doesn’t really exist.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by IgorPartola on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:14AM (#30697805)
Ever talk to anyone who works shift work? Sleeps all day, works all night for a few days then has a few days off when they switch to daytime wakefulness? What is their concept of today and tomorrow?
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