> On Mar 16, 2022, at 10:41 , Jay R. Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
>
>> No development really necessary… Just pick the corresponding standard-time
>> timezone and turn off the DST flip flopping.
>>
>> E.g. if you are in California and go always-on, then simply mark it as MST
>> year
>> round.
>> (i.e. just like you’re in Arizona today, which is MST year round, no DST).
>
> And... Owen illustrates my initial rhetoric about "moving to the east 15
> degrees".
>
> Have we not learned, yet, the "don't lie to the computers" rule?
>
> How *would* the timezone libraries handle "DST always on"? They would still
> have to flap, twice a year, right?
Uh, no. they wouldn’t.
MST with DST off == PDT year round.
Simple. No semi-annual change required.
If you don’t want to lie to the computer, then all one needs to do is rename
the corresponding
timezone files…
MST becomes the new PST file, etc.
Of course at some point, the timezone files went weird and started getting
named after cities instead of timezones, so
the renaming is a little less intuitive, but it’s still doable.
Owen
