• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    7 months ago

    Developers are the only people against DST changes, just because of how complex it will get. Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!

    Just please do it nationally yes or no

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      7 months ago

      Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!

      That’s why it’s lucky that identifiers in the tz database are already things like America/New_York instead of “eastern time.”

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      7 months ago

      Newfoundland has only just over 500k population and has a nice GMT-2:30 time zone. That’s an extra half hour difference. Many cities are larger so I can see them wanting better time for themselves.