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@AZ_Intel_

#USpol #Trump #DST

#MakeDSTpermanent

Despite the science (recent
@theeconomist report), I am all in favor of making Daylight Saving Time permanent: in winter, it will be dark in most states anyway for most people when getting back from work. In early and late summer, one hour more gives you some weeks more to enjoy an evening swim in daylight, etc.

So, for once, I can agree with the #OrangePeril on something.

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MastodonAZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Earlier this morning, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called on Congress to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice yearly practice of switching clocks.

I'd like to use the opportunity to reiterate my point about abolishing #DST, in a slightly different form.

Ask yourselves a bunch of questions:

1. How many devices automatically adjust to DST today, using a date-based algorithm?
2. How many of them get automatic timezone data (or software) updates? Or at least get updated periodically? And how many are going to require an intervention to get the algorithm updated?
3. How many of them actually permit algorithm updates? How many of them get software updates? And how many use software that was long abandoned, and perhaps the sources were lost in the mists of time? In other words, how many "can't do", and we're stuck with doing manual adjustments every half a year to keep the local time correct?
4. How many of these synchronize their UTC time, therefore overwriting our local adjustments? How many of them will permit disabling this synchronization, and how many will require us to physically block it instead? And how many will end up quickly collecting clock drift once the synchronization is off?
5. In the end, how many critical devices we're going to miss entirely, just because they "always worked" and nobody remembers about them anymore?

Sometimes I feel like people are thinking of abolishing DST as if they were living a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, today we're deeply computerized, and such a change requires a lot of preparation work, and readiness to intervene when things fall apart. What it doesn't require is a bunch of noisy politicians, waking up a month before each DST switch to philosophize on their couches. And in the end, such a reform will definitely mean trashing some otherwise good hardware that doesn't get updates anymore.

Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy.

Most Europeans woke up on Sunday clocks that jumped forward by one hour.

The twice-annual time change has long been contentious and was even voted against in an EU open consultation back in 2018.

mediafaro.org/article/20250330

DW · Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy.By Rana Taha
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@JanaDelBosco

Yo también era "team horario de verano" hasta hace no mucho. Pero me he dado cuenta de varias cosas:

• «Nuestra relación con la luz del sol depende del uso horario y no del huso horario». Esto se lo leí a un divulgador hace un tiempo. En resumen: No importa lo que marque el reloj, lo que importa es lo que hacemos en esa hora; solo hay que ver cómo, con el mismo horario que Francia, Alemania o Países Bajos, no usamos nuestro tiempo de la misma manera que estos países.

• Empiezo a valorar mucho más tener más luz solar por las mañanas que por las tardes. "¿Qué más te da tener luz para trabajar, mejor tenerla para el ocio, cuando salgas del trabajo?" es un buen argumento a favor del horario de verano. Sin embargo, yo necesito luz solar para despertarme mejor, no dejamos de ser animales diurnos, por mucho que intentemos negarlo. Salir de casa de noche para ir a trabajar es muy triste.

• Si finalmente se siguiera haciendo el cambio de hora, votaría por volver a lo que se hacía antes de 1996. He leído que en España, hasta ese año, el horario de invierno entraba en vigor a partir del último fin de semana de septiembre, no de octubre, como se hace ahora. Ese cambio actualmente llega tarde porque, siendo en España de 7:00 a 8:30 las horas habituales de entrar al trabajo, la ventaja que sacamos dura tres semanas, tras las cuales volvemos a entrar al trabajo de noche. Un sinsentido.

• Conclusión: Que se terminen los cambios de hora, nos quedamos con el de "invierno" para todo el año y cambiamos nuestros "usos" horarios si hace falta para ajustarnos al cambio. Ejemplo: Entrar antes al trabajo, comer antes, cenar antes...

Gracias por asistir a mi charla TED (vaya rollo acabo de soltar).

Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.

My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃

cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re

Computer Science and EngineeringRemembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect timeMills created the Network Time Protocol, which enables any device online to know precisely what time it is.

Aktuelle Dokumentation über neue, extrem rechtsradikale und gewaltbereite Jugendgruppen wie Jung & Stark (JS), Störtrupp Deutschland (DST) oder Deutsche Jugend Voran (DJV). Diese sind sehr gut untereinander, aber auch zur etablierten Neonazi- und Hooliganszene vernetzt und treten immer hemmungsloser in der Öffentlichkeit auf. Natürlich kratzt die Doku nur an der Oberfläche, ist dennoch sehenswert.

#DieSpur @ZDF #NeueRechte #Neonazis #Hooligans #js #dst #djv #Faschisten

zdf.de/video/reportagen/die-sp

ZDFmediathekJung. Radikal. Organisiert. - Wie gefährlich ist die Neonazi-Jugend?Rechte Straftaten erreichen 2024 einen Höchststand. Darunter sind Gewalttaten, die sich gegen politische Gegner richten. Wer sind die jungen Täter?