The bill is "permanently move all US time zones one hour earlier (-8 thru -5 is replaced permanently with -7 thru -4). They are *calling it* "permanent DST", but that's not really what's happening, in my engineering appraisal. Or my geopolitical one, but I don't lay claim to professional opinions there. -- jra ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mel Beckman" <mel@beckman.org> To: "jra" <jra@baylink.com> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:19:11 PM Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST
I don’t follow why cancelling DST has the effect of moving the US fifteen degrees to the east. Also, your subject line reads “permanent DST”, but from your language the bill will be permanent standard time.
I haven’t read the bill, but I’m hoping you can explain your position more clearly.
-mel via cell
On Mar 15, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would
1) Cancel DST permanently, and 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east.
My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric. Hopefully, it will fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and even if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult.
I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on...
Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their decision on this engineering construct.
Cheers, -- jra
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