OT: New time zones?

[Commander Kinsey]

Ahh, more complicated than I thought. if only governments would leave time as is. Somebody ought to add up all the man hours required throughout the world to cater for daylight savings time.

[williamwright]

It would be a good idea to set the clocks different so the solar panels could work better.

Bill

[Commander Kinsey]

The treehuggers would actually believe that.

Mind you, with increasing electricity prices, solar panels might one day actually be worth buying.

[Chris in Makati]

The update was probably due to Chile announcing that they're changing the date of their daylight saving time.

It normally happens on the first Sunday in September, but this year they're delaying it by one week. It will now take effect from Sunday September 11 2022 instead of the previous Sunday, September 4.

[jon]

My car clock is still on GMT.

[rbowman]

I lived in Ft Wayne IN in the '80s. If you asked someone what time it was, they would answer '20 after' and leave you to figure out what hour you wanted to use. It was so bad the welcome center on the interstate had a three page flyer trying to explain time in Indiana.

I was in a diner in Virginia in the '60s when they didn't observe DST. I asked the crusty old waitress about it and she answered 'We keep God's time in Virginia!'

I didn't know God had a Rollex set to Virginia time but whatever.

[Joerg Lorenz]

This is an Android group. Mentioning a real Linux is completely OT and redundant. Dump your stuff there. Only the Kernel is based on Linux. The whole rest is proprietary crap from Google.

[Commander Kinsey]

So, you defending the android group.....

You hate linux and prefer the proprietary crap?

[Andy Burns]

probably the phone has updated itself to the 2022c timezone database

recent changes

Chile's 2022 DST start is delayed from September 4 to September 11.

Iran plans to stop observing DST permanently, after it falls back

[Joerg Lorenz]

Check my header, dear.

[charles]

SWMBO's car clock lives on BST. Mine changes by itself.

[alan_m]

+1 Harvest time near a farm where I was staying recently the machinery was out and working at 5am and still working with vehicle lights on at 11pm.

[alan_m]

My car has a menu option to automatically adjust for BST but no matter which way its set it just ignores it :)

[williamwright]

Car clock? What's that?

Bill

[Rod Speed]

And even for the average wage slave, much more time for a barby etc.

[Rod Speed]

williamwright [e-mail] wrote

Something you dinosaurs dont get.

[Commander Kinsey]

My god, one sensible country in the world.

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm not a geek, i don't check headers as a matter of course.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

My mother had a Volvo with a clock that world keep time very well, but was hard to set. Half the year, it'd be an hour off.

As to Daylight Saving Time / Summer Time, it's obvious nonsense. If there's a problem getting to school because of darkness, then SCHOOL SHOULD START LATER. This is what happens, but it could be done without tricking people into thinking otherwise, and adding complexity to the process of keeping time.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

Yes, I wish they'd get rid of that useless complexity here.

There should be 25 timezones in the world (not 24, consider that the international date line runs through the middle of a timezone). A few that use non-whole-hour offsets make that number closer to 35.

Consider DST and that number goes to around 500.