@bananabob I am actually fine with either doing away with daylight saving time or keeping it all year. I would just like to not have to deal with the time change twice a year!
@bananabob for systems it should be a non issue, run and store exclusively UTC and only convert on display. Different for people's body clocks, but there is no good tech reason to care.
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This could become a more nuanced discussion, with impacts of climate change affecting working temperatures. I can guess we will soon be having this come up on the agenda.
@bananabob The issue is more than little discontent, disconnect even. It is shown, over the population, to kill.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084938/
Using total mortality as a negative indicator for the impact on public health, we demonstrate that transition periods in daylight saving time regulations are linked to a rise in total mortality and should be avoided in the interest of general well-being.
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Indeed. Keeping us on UTC+12 means that anyone who needs to work with UTC timestamps (e.g. me, for work these days) have an easier life 😜
@aligorith@abartlet Do you still need to shut down the system for an hour when the clock goes back? We needed to do that back in the day for DB2 timestamps.
@bananabob I don't care if it's do away with DST or keep it all year. Or split the difference and move time 1/2 hour forward all year. Whatever. JUST STOP SWITCHING AROUND!
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