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Re: "Permanent" DST
From: Collider <large.hadron.collider () gmx com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:24:50 +0000
Permanent DST has the same effect as cancelling DST and moving all the timezones up one hour. Since timezones are roughly sliced every 15 degrees of ... longitude?, hefting the physical US 15 degrees eastward would have the same effect on timezones as just a legal glitch to change them. On 15 March 2022 19:19:11 UTC, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
I don’t follow why cancelling DST has the effect of moving the US fifteen degrees to the east. Also, your subject line reads “permanent DST”, but from your language the bill will be permanent standard time. I haven’t read the bill, but I’m hoping you can explain your position more clearly. -mel via cellOn Mar 15, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote: In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would 1) Cancel DST permanently, and 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east. My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric. Hopefully, it will fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and even if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult. I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on... Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their decision on this engineering construct. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
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- Re: "Permanent" DST Chris Adams (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST John Levine (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 17)
- Re: "Permanent" DST J. Hellenthal via NANOG (Mar 18)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Matthew Kaufman (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Brett Frankenberger (Mar 17)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Chris Adams (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Collider (Mar 15)
- RE: "Permanent" DST Ray Van Dolson via NANOG (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST William Herrin (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Mel Beckman (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Jay Hennigan (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)