DST shifts again next year. I wonder why they decided to make the changes over 2 years instead of one?
Every civilized country does. The only semi-important ones that don't have it is China/Japan.
I hadnt realized that countries already over the international date line were much concern. Not to mention that parts of China dont even use standardized time...so in other words.....he's right. not every country participates
I hadnt realized that countries already over the international date line were much concern. Not to mention that parts of China dont even use standardized time...
All I heard was whine, whine, I work in a cubicle, whine.
My company is multinational. It is extremely difficult to coordinate meetings, inspections, even code launches when time zones and GMT offsets change for some centers but not others.
For those purposes, it would be even better to not have multiple time zones.
You do know that sunrise is at a different time for about every 5 miles you go east or west? (This is called solar, or local time) Time zones standardise it into about 24, hour differentiated zones, i.e. 15 degrees of longitude. If you had taken celestial navigation you'd know these things.You are right, but let us kill the smaller evils first, the work on the mega beasts later.
ehhh get rid of em .. let's all be on the same time .. who cares if it's pitch black out at noon
You do know that sunrise is at a different time for about every 5 miles you go east or west? (This is called solar, or local time) Time zones standardise it into about 24, hour differentiated zones, i.e. 15 degrees of longitude. If you had taken celestial navigation you'd know these things.
Killing time zones is not your problem, you should just set your "machines" to UTC if synching them is such a problem. It is why it exists...
my mother lives 8 timezones away. I got her a clock to leave set to my time so she wouldn't call me before i'm supposed to get up. Now she just calls me when I'm at work.AZ>*...
i moved across the country 7 yrs ago. my parents still call me every weekend. i'm 30. dst only affects me for half a year when i get called while we're eating. it's like clockwork. and my dad still dosen't seem to grasp time zones and dst, first thing he asks is "what time is it there..."
but i digress...
Every civilized country does. The only semi-important ones that don't have it is China/Japan.
i seem to recall that parts of Indiana still don't have it. Also, some parts of Indiana are Eastern and some parts are Central. Right?Arizona and Hawaii don't have DST.
Indiana used to not have it.
Puerto Rico does not have it.
The underlying synchronization software uses UTC, however scheduling meetings and software releases does not.
I didn't say to kill time zones, per se. that was taeric's idea. I just say kill DST everywhere.
And what crawled up your ass and died? Ususally you are an ass, but you today I don't want to bend over for you.
that may be so, but they have better beer, and they observe DST. I'm not sure if they're on it now though.London Ontario is the poser London.