Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ...
by darrenf on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:04PM
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I was tangentially affected by Pakistan deciding to extend DST in 2008 with very little notice. It was originally going to end on August 31, but I believe they decided on August 28 or so to extend it to October.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Paki...
https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.h...
Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ...
by avip on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:19PM
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Samoa also famously skipped the 2011-12-30.
Maybe "famously among software developers" is more on-point.
Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ...
by bigmattystyles on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:13PM
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Was this to move to the other side of the dateline or something?
Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ...
by adjagu on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:10PM
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Yes.
The time change, officially decided in June, is meant to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners; it moves the islands’ work days further from the United States, which dominated its economy in the past. [0]
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220809080548/https://www.nytim...
Just to pick a couple from last year that are unambiguous and well-documented (most you’ll have at least a bit more trouble finding first-party announcement of):
2021d: Fiji gave a month’s notice on suspending DST for the season.
2021b: Samoa gave less than a week’s notice on cancelling DST.
I have a feeling there was a less-than-two-days’ notice a few years ago, but can’t be bothered hunting for it. But there are many more of things like “eh, we’re shifting the start or end by a day or two or a week or two, with less than ten days’ notice”.