On 11/15/22 1:34 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Demetrios Matsakis via LEAPSECS writes:
Another one, about traffic accidents, showed a whole bunch of wiggles =
over a year, and said that one of those coincided with a DST switch.
That one is actually pretty well documented in Europe,
Demetrios Matsakis via LEAPSECS writes:
> Another one, about traffic accidents, showed a whole bunch of wiggles =
> over a year, and said that one of those coincided with a DST switch.
That one is actually pretty well documented in Europe, but most of the
extra accidents are
If the resolution passes, post 2035, will C and D content change and
in what fashion?
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That evolutionary approach sounds like exactly what I think would happen if
future leap seconds were abolished. Over the centuries, and very gradually (as
in not abruptly), people will on the average start going to work a little later
as judged by the clock… if they even do “go to work” so far
Miroslav Lichvar wrote in
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|On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:22:27PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
|> Full hour shifts, on the other hand, can be done merely by changing
|> the time-zone, and they can be done through the normal political
|> process, aligned to recognized borders.
|
|It doesn't
The bill currently in the US Congress, the "Sunshine Protection Act"
(S. 623) illustrates the desire of politicians to wait for decades to
address an issue, and then go for the quick fix. The bill would establish
permanent daylight saving time. The slower approach would be to abolish
daylight
Clive D.W. Feather writes:
> Stick with what people are used to, which is (mostly) shifts of an hour.
Yeah, well...
That's the disadvantage of handling it at the political level:
There is no discernible upper limit to how stupid politicians can be about
timezones.
Apart from 15
Miroslav Lichvar said:
> It doesn't even have to be a full-hour shift. Some countries use
> timezones with offsets given in 15-minute resolution,
True, though they're very rare.
> so any software
> used globally already has to support 15-minute shifts. Adding support
> for 1-minute shifts in
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:22:27PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Full hour shifts, on the other hand, can be done merely by changing
> the time-zone, and they can be done through the normal political
> process, aligned to recognized borders.
It doesn't even have to be a full-hour shift. Some
