Time and Date

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• Positive

  “It can also be explained as a matter of simple efficiency: Currently when synchronising something, two pieces of information must be known (the time, and the timezone). If using a single timezone, only one is required…”

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• Positive

  “Software is often written with the assumption that time always goes forward, because, well, that's how time works. However, according to the rules of daylight savings, time actually goes backwards once a year.”

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• Critical

  “I am lucky to be able to avoid this problem, because while I do have users that want to read and write times in their local time zone, they are asleep at 1am and automated stuff tends to run at midnight. Sometimes the…”

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• Critical

  “When living off the grid on solar power, messing with the time the sun is up is annoying. It's been working out well enough for me”

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Threads: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST) (2011, 117 comments)