On the DST shenanigans
Mar. 17th, 2007 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoThe problem: Daylight Saving Time is a legal construct, governed in the US by the whim of Congress. After 20 years of a stable formula, they changed it.
The sensible answer: abolish it, and simply ask people to change their hours instead. (If work expects you in at 8, change that to 7. Keep a set of summer hours rather than changing the clocks.)
The answer that could actually be adopted: When Congress futzes with the clocks, they should guarantee that the change in algorithm is good for N years, and will give at least 2 years warning between passing a change and making it effective.At least that way it can be planned for a little more carefully.
The sensible answer: abolish it, and simply ask people to change their hours instead. (If work expects you in at 8, change that to 7. Keep a set of summer hours rather than changing the clocks.)
The answer that could actually be adopted: When Congress futzes with the clocks, they should guarantee that the change in algorithm is good for N years, and will give at least 2 years warning between passing a change and making it effective.At least that way it can be planned for a little more carefully.
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Date: 2007-03-17 11:06 am (UTC)My solution would be to remind programmers to document their assumptions, even if they think those assumptions are trivial and unchangeable.