Posted by sprawl_ 1 day ago
Also, I've often picked a random city in Pacific time when setting timezones on hosts, so I guess it's going to cause me some headaches in the fall.
Source: me, BC resident.
^1: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019PREM0103-001748#:~:text=...
>>>More than 93% of the record 223,273 British Columbians who completed the Province’s survey on time observance have indicated they would prefer a move to permanent daylight saving time (DST).
Sticking with Standard Time was not an option listed in that survey.
The change was made (partly) based on a bullshit poll of residents, that asked basically "Hey which would you rather do, use year-round Daylight Savings Time or keep switching every six months?" - notably not including the option a lot of people wanted (and which is well-supported by a lot of research as the best option), which was "use year-round Standard Time".
And then in a bunch of press conferences and answers to the public, they would say "oh, this is what people chose" from the poll.
On the other hand, I don't like it getting dark at 3:30 in the afternoon in Vancouver around Christmas. I know it means it will be darker later in the morning but you wake up in the dark that time of year already anyways.
As for winter, an extra hour of dark doesn't feel like a huge deal. When I commuted in the winter it was often happening around 6am while still dark anyways.
I have a feeling people's morning habits will change a bit to compensate for the darker mornings though. So I think it'll work out in the end.
Where do you expect the premature deaths to come from? Rush hour traffic in the dark?
The EU won and the UK left at 2020-01-31, 23:00 GMT (local time)...
So a daily event approximating High Noon is literally gone forever here. Yes yes, depending on longitude, it was never there, but now it's even farther away. Life goes on...
A rather bold use of the word “permanently” given that the province just changed the previous permanent setup.
You sure about that?
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz-announce@iana.org/...
2026b - changes to future timestamps
2026a - changes to past and future timestamps
2025c - changes to past timestamps
2025b - changes to past timestamps
2025a - changes to future timestamps
2024b - changes to past timestamps
2024a - changes to future timestamps
2023d - changes to past and future timestamps
2023c - changes that changed future timestamps reverted
2023b - changes to future timestamps
I definitely prefer the... fragile? approach for this problem
UPDATE appointments
SET starts_at_utc = local_time AT TIME ZONE timezone_name
WHERE timezone_name = 'America/Vancouver'
AND starts_at_utc > now();I've been thinking about it for a while though - a time zone conversion library that also accepts an additional "tzdata_version" argument.