• SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This was on the docket to be voted on in 2023 (i think, could have been 2022) and it never made it to the floor. Why? His cronies. They just let it fall by the side, probably so they could do it now. I’m so sick and tired of this shit show if a govt. Failed fucking state.

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      5 months ago

      Any state can abolish DST on its own, some have already done so.

      There was a bill in Congress to put the entire country on permanent DST (which states can’t do on their own). It died because (a) some states don’t want permanent DST, and (b) doctors have found that permanent DST is less healthy than no DST.

      In fact, Congress already tried permanent DST briefly in the 70s. Some children were killed in early morning traffic accidents, schools responded by shifting their winter hours later, and the public generally turned against it.

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    Will y’all shut the fuck up and act like you don’t want this? You’re going to ruin it.

    We absolutely need to start protesting this so he makes it a priority.

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      5 months ago

      Dang, I sure do love that Obama created daylight savings time. I hope it never goes away. Thanks Obama!

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    5 months ago

    He was quoted out of context. He wants to separately eliminate daylight, savings, and time.

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    5 months ago

    Seeing a lot of talk on here about keeping Standard or DST.

    Oh my God for the love of all that’s holy just let them pick one!

    I don’t care if the sun comes up at 2:00am or 2:00pm or even if the sun fuckin’ sets at 12:00 noon. Just pick a time and stick with it. Holy shitsnax.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Probably the only good thing he’d ever do, look forward to seeing how they fuck it up.

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    5 months ago

    The EU parliament had a vote to abolish DST, and it passed. They just forgot to hammer out the details, then COVID and Ukraine happened, so focus shifted.

    I hope they’ll pick up the ball again at some point.

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    5 months ago

    Every time this topic comes up I wonder how many computer systems this will break. Maybe we find out soon if this is really realized.

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      It wont be too bad. If you mean computers used commercially, Unix keeps a running total of seconds since the epoch and DST only affects whats displayed as time. Nothing will fundamentally change for these systems. In windows server products it wont be a problem, and some windows clients use an automatic patch process. Air gapped computers may have some hacky process around DST, but its a pretty solved problem.