Subj : Re: Daylight Savings
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Mar 20 2025 09:50 am

  Re: Re: Daylight Savings
  By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Mar 20 2025 09:00 am

 >> But seriously, if we permanently switched to daylight saving time, I
 >> suspect there may be edge cases where there would be issues with
 >> timekeeping the year we do that, as our records would effectively have that
 >> year be 1 hour shorter than normal..  But maybe it wouldn't be a big deal.

 DW> I think the "edge cases" would have more to do with what edge of the time
 DW> zone you are closest to.  In my part of Kentucky, we are on the west edge

What I was talking about is looking through historical records, etc..  For instance, if something started happening early in the year and lasted through the end of the year, we'd have to know that span of time would be 1 hour shorter because we stayed on daylight saving time permanently.

Nightfox
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