• letsgo@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Actually I quite like it. You get daylight in the morning in winter, and longer evenings in the summer.

    Without DST you have to choose between: in winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, meaning you don’t see any daylight apart from at weekends, which is especially depressing if you work in a place short on windows; OR you waste a bunch of daylight in the summer mornings and have shorter evenings when the weather is warmer and it’s nicer to be outside.

    I am a programmer. Not sure why this would be a problem. Just fix the computers to GMT+X and for the most part it won’t matter. It’s not as if I have to rewrite DST code every few months.

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      3 days ago

      in winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, meaning you don’t see any daylight apart from at weekends,

      That’s already my reality as it stands

    • Chris@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      The issue is more with embedded systems which have been hard coded to European DST.

      Most sane software will use the OS timezone and not care about DST. Most sane embedded systems will have some config for DST. I bet there are lots of cranky unsupported things which are horribly broken though.