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Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ... by avip on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:19PM (#32802431)
Samoa also famously skipped the 2011-12-30.

Maybe "famously among software developers" is more on-point.

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Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ... by bigmattystyles on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:13PM (#32804165)
Was this to move to the other side of the dateline or something?
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Re:Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change ... by adjagu on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:10PM (#32804758)
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...

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