this causes many hospitals to simply bring their systems down for that hour and utilize paper records

Que grande Terry felicitaciones por el trabajo que estás haciendo y vas a hacer con el calendario 👌👏👏

Time to end daylight savings

Yeah. DSL day and the days following suck.

#nostr should adopt Internet time :)

internet time!!!

Timezones are the biggest shitcoin ever. Nostr events imo should use unix timestamp and let the clients translate it into daylight shitting time

UTC maxi

💯 keep that fiat nonsense out of my protocol

Why the fuck do they use Unix time and then convert it to a time zone rather than just appending the time zone? Someone was way too high when they came up with that nonsense.

anything with timezones is a bitch. someone was definitely on something.

I mean sure, but they started with a perfectly good Unix timestamp and then blew it up by localizing it instead of doing the obvious thing…why

Ignore big tech orthodoxy and stick with Unix timestamps

I let multiple apps go to their grave with open time related bugs. DST related, will not fix. I believe that they should fix time not me fix my app. Coding was what first turned me against time changes and I will die on that hill.

I‘lol throw my hat in for the unix timestamps. Each client app should be able to localize on the fly, and then you don’t have to worry about data going stale when regions switch time zones.

job security

Nip is coming together nicely!

TIL

yeah i had fun with that one. i wrote a little tool that generates a complete timezones and offsets and start-end from a data source... let me see if i can dig it up to help https://github.com/mleku/timelanguage this already has mostly current data on it. you need to run the "generator.go" function in the "data" directory after deleting the two json files in there to make it regenerate. takes a minute or two for it to do it. the languages are also part of the locale data, and includes currencies and phone codes and iso country codes and all that. it actually generates a plain one with just the time zones data the offsets are in seconds, and the start/end for places with DST are unix timestamps of the current next start/end i hope it helps. you can use it as is but i recommend you write some script to make it regenerate it every 3 months or so because who knows what the fuck governments are gonna do in that time lol

i should probably make a little web service that maintains these updating every few months and hosting the output json files for people to use. if someone wants to zap me some i'll do it (and the app will be open source so you can run it yourself). hit me up

stick to unix timestamps, but make a converter i didn't know about that hour when things are broken. that's pretty pissweak. i remember what a big deal the computer clock apocalypse that happened, when was it, 1999? what was it called again? people should all be using unix timestamps in their applications by now. it's what scientists fucking use.

ah yes, Y2K bug. mostly affected windows based systems of course, because windows didn't adopt posix time until later.