Gregory's ServerPSA to other folks who also frequently schedule meetings across the Atlantic: DST ends this Sunday in Europe but it doesn’t end until the following Sunday in the US—because if we’re going to fuck with the clocks let’s maximize the chaos and fuck with them at different times, sure, why not.
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@aworkinglibrary I approve this message! DST is ridiculous. I’ve been waiting years for the EU to eliminate it.  @aworkinglibrary Ooof thank you for the reminder. I'm in a province that doesn't switch times at all so this is reallly maximum chaos time for me...all my in-province meetings stay the same and all my international meetings switch times UGH I interrupt all of this complaining about DST itself to bask in the fact that, since I'm currently traveling in Euroland, and not returning for another several days, I get to "fall back" twice. Currently thinking about doing that again next year... :)  @aworkinglibrary Of course several states and territories of Australia went onto daylight saving time over 3 weeks ago...and some did not. @stacey_campbell @aworkinglibrary I always assume no one in Australia cares what time it is because their time zones are clearly an elaborate prank. @aworkinglibrary the fun one for me was always Brazil (or Southern hemisphere in general). Their daylight savings is done opposite the East Coast so the time varies from 1, 2, or 3 hours depending on the time of year.  @aworkinglibrary I work with people in India (no change), Colombia (no change) and the US (who knows - I will find out when my calendar changes I guess)  @aworkinglibrary @aworkinglibrary and Australia is already on daylight savings. I think South Africa doesn't change.  @aworkinglibrary @lisamelton These two weeks are the happiest in my work, as the difference between my US time zone and my EU colleagues’ time zone is SMALLER  @aworkinglibrary My especial favorite are the folk that specify the absolute time zone, e.g. EST or EDT, incorrectly and, most of the time, unnecessarily. @donaldball @aworkinglibrary My pet peeve is people from the UK who say "GMT" when they actually mean "London time". @donaldball @aworkinglibrary Maybe I’da been one of those people, but I can never remember which is which so I just write ET (or PT if the person is US west coast). So far, it’s never been a problem. No one’s ever said, “Do you mean eastern standard time or eastern daylight time?” Like, why would they? @aworkinglibrary Thanks for the reminder, Mandy! Just tagging my friend Stacy @dancinyogi in case she has scheduled some meetings with her clients in Europe. @dancinyogi @aworkinglibrary You are very welcome, Stacy! I would not want you to wake up very early needlessly!! 😀 @aworkinglibrary and then there is the history across nations of whether midnight is AM or PM! very stoopid. @aworkinglibrary @jenniferplusplus Thanks Bush! I remember patching windows, Java/cold fusion installs.  @aworkinglibrary welcome to DST in Australia. But the climate in Darwin is drastically different from the climate in Hobart. Also almost 33° of Latitude from top to bottom. But also it was a bit of a miracle that we ended up as one country; there was and still is a lot of rivalry between the states and often all the reason needed to not do something is that another state did it.  @aworkinglibrary @aworkinglibrary I understood that this dys-syncronization originates with George W. Bush and the candy manufacturers’ lobby who wanted to keep the clocks back so more kids would work their neighbourhoods on Hallowe’en with a little more light. 😳 @martingb ha, i knew it was bush but hadn’t heard about the candy angle, but ofc that makes total sense  @aworkinglibrary How does this even work? In Europe hey move the Sun 15 degrees across the sky on a particular day, but we keep it in the same place for another week in (parts of) North America? @aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social even more fun: Mexico stopped doing DST in 2022 but even when it did it, it was on a different date. Some places do crazy stuff like Cancun changing timezones in 2015 just because hotel owners lobbied for it. @aworkinglibrary And if the House approves the Sunshine Protection Act of 2023, and Biden signs it, we won't set our clocks back at all. I don't even know what time it's going to be in less than a month. A coworker of mine once called the aggregate of ever-changing seasonal clock adjustment laws worldwide "The Date-Time Library Developer Job Creation Act". 🙂🕑   i got into the habit of giving meeting times in utc/zulu and letting everyone's calendar figure out if/when DST would affect them just to avoid this. collossal pain and frequently shows just how broken time zone/DST support in many calendar programs is. whee!!!! @aworkinglibrary the history of DST is interesting: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seize_the_Daylight/vin1BgAAQBAJ?hl=en  @aworkinglibrary |
@aworkinglibrary Also complicates life for U.S. fans of the Premier League.