[thepossum]

I know you can argue buyer beware but

[barmar]

The US (except for a couple of states) entered Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning this week. Most of Europe changes on March 29.

[pescetom]

 barmar, on 2026-March-11, 10:12, said:

The US (except for a couple of states) entered Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning this week. Most of Europe changes on March 29.

And you have known for two decades but never fixed the interface to handle it correctly in Europe (or perhaps even in the US outside EST?)

To be fair, Europe held a referendum and the verdict was to stop changing the clock, but most countries simply ignored that. Italy is due to hold its own referendum and I will not be at all surprised if Stop wins and is ignored yet again. Stupidity has an awesome momentum once up to speed.

[mw64ahw]

My clocks change continuously unless broken

[mycroft]

I will admit this is one of the joys of my current travelling life:

• When I am in Canada, I am on MDT.
  
• When I leave to go South, I go to CST (which for the last 4 years has been full-time, except near the border where for 800-pound-gorilla reasons, they do whatever the state north of them does, or the extremes of the country, where they have stayed on a different time zone full-time).
  
• By the time I come back, Alberta is on MDT again.

I spent 20+ years of my life auto-translating timezones (my default statement, even today, is "unless I say otherwise, any times are *your time*." I have enough experience with doing this in my head that it's just not worth doing a negotiation). I spent more than 20 years of my life changing 3-20 clocks, twice a year, invariably taking between 2 weeks (oh, right, that has a clock on it too) to 6 months (I have no idea how to set the clock on this thing) to get all of them. This is a Win.

Yes, I frequently play in the Alberta Daily Team Game and a VABC in Texas, and so have to do the switch back and forth.

The scariest "time clock change" this year was driving to Puerto Vallarta, where I couldn't figure out why we were so early - because I forgot the highway goes into Nayarit (MST, "zona Pacifica" in México) for a couple of hours before dipping back into Jalisco at the Vallarta Airport and my phone switched.

The rest of BC joined Creston, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Arizona and other intelligent states last week - this is the final change. Alberta is talking about it again, now being surrounded by one-timers and Montana (plebiscite 4 years ago was a two-valued ask of a three-valued question, and failed when the "stay on one time, but the other one" joined the "nah, we like missing church and meetings twice a year, at least there's light for one of my commutes" group).

[jillybean]

Here in BC we sprung forward on March 8th and ended this ancient routine of changing clocks.
PSPDT is here for good.

[pescetom]

jillybean, on 2026-March-11, 10:48, said:

Here in BC we sprung forward on March 8th and ended this ancient routine of changing clocks.
PSPDT is here for good.

Wow, do you have it written in stone?
Around here merely winning a referendum is apparently nowhere near enough.

But on reflection maybe it is better to leave this open, as a litmus paper.
Governments and enterprises capable of recognizing their own errors deserve to thrive.

[jillybean]

Of course nothing is written in stone. There has been decades of debate and pondering, watching what our neighbours across the 49th parallel opt for.
Change moves as quickly as molasses on a snowy day.

A shortened version of the history:

2007: The B.C. government conducts a public consultation on daylight time. Over 4,000 people respond — only around 10 per cent of whom favour getting rid of the clock-changing.

More pondering, a few regions in BC make the decision to drop daylight time.


September 2019: More than 223,000 British Columbians vote in a survey. Ninety-three per cent of participants voted in favour of a move to permanent daylight time.

more pondering

October 2019: The province introduces legislation that will switch most of B.C. to permanent daylight time — but no firm timeline is provided, with the Horgan government saying the shift will happen once California, Washington and neighbouring jurisdictions do so.

Time stands still

2023: B.C. Premier David Eby says the province will only change its time zone in alignment with "major trading partners" in the south.

2025: As the relationship between the U.S. and Canada frays, Eby said he's pondering changing the time zone even before neighbouring U.S. states do.

March 2, 2026: Eby and Attorney General Niki Sharma finally announce that the province will shift to daylight time year-round.

[thepossum]

thx everyone
at least it only costs up to one tournament a year