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Re: "Permanent" DST
From: Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:33:32 -0700
On Mar 16, 2022, at 10:41 , Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote: ----- Original Message -----From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>No development really necessary… Just pick the corresponding standard-time timezone and turn off the DST flip flopping. E.g. if you are in California and go always-on, then simply mark it as MST year round. (i.e. just like you’re in Arizona today, which is MST year round, no DST).And... Owen illustrates my initial rhetoric about "moving to the east 15 degrees". Have we not learned, yet, the "don't lie to the computers" rule? How *would* the timezone libraries handle "DST always on"? They would still have to flap, twice a year, right?
Uh, no. they wouldn’t. MST with DST off == PDT year round. Simple. No semi-annual change required. If you don’t want to lie to the computer, then all one needs to do is rename the corresponding timezone files… MST becomes the new PST file, etc. Of course at some point, the timezone files went weird and started getting named after cities instead of timezones, so the renaming is a little less intuitive, but it’s still doable. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: "Permanent" DST, (continued)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST John Levine (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST surfer (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Matthew Petach (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Jay Ashworth (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Jay Ashworth (Mar 15)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Mike Hammett (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Jay R. Ashworth (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Tom Beecher (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Jay Hennigan (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST John Levine (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 16)
- Re: "Permanent" DST Joe Loiacono (Mar 17)