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Re: "Permanent" DST


From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:41:28 -0700




On Mar 15, 2022, at 2:06 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

It violates the international rule determining what your time zone should be based on what your longitude is. 

That is not trivial.

It’s an informal convention, not “rule”, and it  not vaguely consistent in practice now.  You’re attributing a 
consensus to what’s practically chaos.  Look at all the headaches the TZ people are dealing with now.  This simplifies 
things considerably.

-george 

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