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Re: "Permanent" DST


From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:30:21 +0000 (UTC)

Oh.  This was "Unanimous Consent"?  AKA "I want to vote for this, but *I do
not want to be held responsible for having voted for it when it blows up*?"

I'd missed that; thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher () beecher cc>
To: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>
Cc: "nanog () nanog org list" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:04:02 PM
Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST

I would say if something passes the United States Senate in our current
political environment by unanimous consent (which this did) , I kinda feel
like there won't be a ton of issues with everybody figuring out how to line
themselves up appropriately.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:

That is true but at present everything business related in BC has a clear
expectation of being in the same time zone as WA/OR/CA, and AB matches US
Mountain time.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 13:35, Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2 () dragon net>
wrote:

eric> If Canada doesn't do the same thing at the same time, it'll be a
eric> real hassle, dealing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing the
eric> border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done
eric> consistently throughout North America.

You must not have ever dealt with Indiana, where it was DST or not by
choice per county. It wasn't quite the cluster***k you'd think.


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