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Daylight savings needs to go, but not on the half hour.
Dealing with Date/Time offsets is already confusing enough for programmers and causes all kinds of problems from PLCs to databases on up.
Either make DST permanent or eliminate it, and while we're at it go to 24 hour time, eliminating the AM/PM nonsense.
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/19/daylight-act-of-2026-proposing-half-daylight-saving-time/88760725007/
Replies to: Daylight savings needs to go, but not on the half hour.
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The Amish between Nappanee and Bremen were ahead of the curve in the 60s.
The Daylight Savings Line ran between the two northern Indiana towns, so the Amish figured, "Why don't we just split the difference?"
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Akin to Newfoundland time…
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That must have been difficult on Amish coders.
I believe Newfoundland is the only place with a 30 minute offset currently.
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Quite a few central Asian zones have 30 min or even 45 min offsets.
Stupid idea, though. We should stay synced with GMT.
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45? WTF?
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A lot of apple cider gone hard was chugged for some time.
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