Re: [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

Posted by Steve Smith on Mar 19, 2013; 4:44pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Please-sign-this-thing-Eliminate-the-bi-annual-time-change-caused-by-Daylight-Savings-Time-tp7581998p7582150.html

Owen-

Sorry to bump, but now *another* DST fkup: Europe does not change DST when the US does.

So today our skype Italian class was shifted, and both Dede and I had to cancel scheduled events.

If we have to live with time changes, we should at least try to make it global, we're a pretty global community now and I bet others got hit by US/Euro/Worldwide differences.

Yup... my Australian colleagues would love it if we made them set their clocks forward in *their* Autumn and back in *their* Spring.   They could enjoy the *worst* of both the natural sidereal day's limitations and our ideal of mucking with it. 

Better yet, let's defer to *them* and let them decide when *we* should set our clocks forward and back based on *their* preferences and convenience... if it got bad enough some of us might just quit referencing our clocks!

Let's just get it over with and set Pi == 3 (or 2 or 4 for those with a fetish for binary and for "better to be wrong than vague").

I agree that it would be convenient if the Southern Hemisphere could spring forward when we fall back and vice-versa... as having to adjust by 0 or 1 or 2 hours throughout the year is a bit wonky... but our model of solar time is imperfect and any and all adjustments are going to be flawed.

- Steve

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