Oh. This was "Unanimous Consent"? AKA "I want to vote for this, but *I do not want to be held responsible for having voted for it when it blows up*?" I'd missed that; thanks. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc> To: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:04:02 PM Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST
I would say if something passes the United States Senate in our current political environment by unanimous consent (which this did) , I kinda feel like there won't be a ton of issues with everybody figuring out how to line themselves up appropriately.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:
That is true but at present everything business related in BC has a clear expectation of being in the same time zone as WA/OR/CA, and AB matches US Mountain time.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 13:35, Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2@dragon.net> wrote:
eric> If Canada doesn't do the same thing at the same time, it'll be a eric> real hassle, dealing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing the eric> border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done eric> consistently throughout North America.
You must not have ever dealt with Indiana, where it was DST or not by choice per county. It wasn't quite the cluster***k you'd think.
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