Chris HisleMar 9
David Beazley
The fact that there's so many tech people against daylight savings time tells me that it's probably a pretty good idea actually.
Mar 8 at 10:24pmWeb
Show threadPaul HoffmanMar 8
@dabeaz But we were against it before being a tech person was cool.
Show threadJimmyMar 9

@dabeaz @drdrang As someone who cut my teeth in tech as an international distribution API product manager for Disney, I concur.

Time zone offsets are bad enough, but then some of them change sometimes, but not at the same time in every country, and even in the same country they sometimes don’t change at all.

Just so many location-based conditionals.

Show threadEnricoMar 9
@dabeaz I am against it because it’s a bad idea badly executed, that doesn’t solve half as many problems as it creates.
Show threadPaul KoenigMar 9
@dabeaz @drdrang “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.” Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
Show threadWallOffTrumpMar 9
@dabeaz
Does raise a point i hadn't thought of -
Fewer and fewer of us set our own clocks - they are set through their internet connection. Will the internet allow time to be set separately in BC?
Show threadKonrad HinsenMar 10

@dabeaz I hope you did a careful scientific evaluation of the pro-DST percentage in tech and on-tech populations!

Around me, roughly everybody is against DST.

Show threadDavid BeazleyMar 10
@khinsen Yeah, I felt it out amongst myself.