What’s in the way of making daylight saving time permanent
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In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

  • WetFerret@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    I believe this is how Google handles leap years and leap seconds on all of their servers. They kind of smear the difference out over a period of time so the difference isn’t noticeable. Great for day to day activities, but people doing scientific measurements or other precision date work would probably have to use their own solution.

    • rustyriffs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      Not to sound negative towards those groups who use precision date work, but I think they should probably be using their own solutions anyway, and are probably more than capable of figuring out good solutions on their own. In my opinion, that definitely isn’t a reason why the rest of us shouldn’t have an agreeable (automated) standardization.

      Are the potential difficulties that these specific groups could face so drastic/detrimental that it just wouldn’t work for some reason or another?