Kind of puzzled about timestamps

[Jerry Feldman]

I think DST has outlived its usefulness. There was a proposal to move MA to
the Atlantic Time Zone. There was a more recent proposal for CT to move,
but it makes no sense without NH and ME. I think stability is more
important.

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 2:44 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com>
wrote:

> On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 March 2021, Ben Scott was heard to say:
> >> Even that's not enough, because the stupid humans keep changing
> >> what the time zones mean.
> >
> > With GMT as the standard time stamp, one can at least know relative
> > times of files, even if one does not know such real-world details.
> >
> > I've gotten into a couple of heated arguments for/against the idea of
> > using GMT for everything, and then adapting what time things happen
> > to local conditions. The reactions to that idea have been
> > fascinating. Much like the arguments about Daylight Saving.
> >
> > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you wake
> > up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on their
> > clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be?
>
> Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does?
>
> Every Spring, I get delighted that the sun is finally rising early enough
> to make it easy to get up at what's supposed to be `a reasonable time' in
> the morning,
> and I then DST comes in and makes the sun not rise for another hour.
> Ha-ha! Early April Fools'! Another month of dark mornings!
>
> And then all of the news channels are flooded with people opining about
> how much `better' it would be `if we just had DST all year' because
> all they care about is having daylight-fun hours at the _tail end of the
> day_,
> because..., I don't know--they're all unemployed? Or by the end of the day
> they've forgotten how hard it was to get out of the bed and be useful
> that morning? And I guess by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot
> that `winter' even was ever a thing....
>
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