Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by hhdhdbdb on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:00AM
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That no odder than Gregorian
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Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by charlieyu1 on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:29AM
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Still not weirder than Lunar calendar
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by stronglikedan on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:24AM
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Why use celestial bodies at all? Let's bring the Soviet calendar back!
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by hprotagonist on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @10:03AM
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something something every 5 years.
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by IggleSniggle on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:34AM
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It's not odd as in a more unusual system, but odd in that it is widely incompatible with the calendar of most of the world, but still official calendar. Kinda like the Kodak calendar (which was instead 13 28-day months (364 days), and iirc does the off-day adjustments over the corporate winter holiday...actually pretty reasonable)
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by pc86 on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @12:04PM
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Merry Corporate Winter Holiday!
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by xeromal on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @01:10PM
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lmao
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by antod on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:43PM
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Not reasonable at all... it's Corporate Summer Holiday around here.
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by IggleSniggle on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:24PM
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You take that back!
Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
by kergonath on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:38AM
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There are good reasons for the Gregorian calendar’s oddities, though. Any simple system stops being simple when you apply it to enough different situations. I am not sure programmers would like it better if each country had a different calendar for each season. Because a day that starts at 6 and ends at 18 would make sense 2 days each years here in Europe. Not even that if you go far enough North.