Subj : Re: Daylight Savings Time
To   : Nightfox
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 21:18:00

-=> On 02-23-22 09:31, Nightfox wrote to Mike Dippel <=-

 Ni> I've heard Oregon has thought of doing that.  I'd wonder if it would
 Ni> mess with historical timekeeping at all though.  If we stayed on DST,
 Ni> then that would mean the year we switch to DST and stay that way,
 Ni> records would show that year as having one less hour (since we would
 Ni> skip ahead and not go back).  If we were to stop changing the clocks, I
 Ni> thought it might be better to stay on standard time.

That's already happened here, since our DST change affected the summer months
(including New Years).  No biggie.

And besides, going further back in history, several _days_ don't exist, because
of the switch from the Julian to Gregorian calendar.  The exact number of days
depends on where you're talking about - different countries switched calendars
in different years, with Russia being among the last in the early 20th century.

The other implication is different parts of the world had different dates at
the same time.

So I don't think an hour is going to be a big deal. ;)


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