Ah, yes, the United States. Under a federal (i.e., national) statute, the 
so-called Uniform Time Act of 
1966<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act>, daylight saving time is 
uniform throughout the United States, except for the opt-out states of Hawaii 
and Arizona (except for Navaho territories within Arizona, which do observe 
daylight saving time), and except for several overseas territories of the 
United States. Even a computer should not be required to put up with this 
patchwork of nonsense.

I agree with the others who advocated use of UTC, which is uniform worldwide 
and which anyone can convert to local time.

Steven Finell




From: Wikitech-ambassadors 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad 
Jorsch (Anomie)
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:43 AM
To: Wikimedia developers
Cc: Marko Obrovac; Development and Operations engineers; Wikitech Ambassadors; 
Operations Engineers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Additional 
European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also 
SWAT change)

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Kunal Mehta 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
(un)relatedly:
* EU survey to remove summertime/DST:
<https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2018-summertime-arrangements?surve
ylanguage=EN>
* California Proposition 7 (2018) to institute a permanent DST:
<https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_Daylight_Sa
ving_Time_Measure_(2018)>

Hopefully we can get rid of this problem at the root cause as well :)

You forgot about most of the rest of the US ;)


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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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