Daylight saving bug

[Zac67]

A minor bug for us European users: in Europe DST
- starts last Sunday in March
- ends last Sunday in October (today)
at 1:00 UTC.

I had to set my time zone to GMT to get the post times correct.

[Zac67]

@moto
That's because a.org believes you're still in DST. The problem will go away next Sunday, but I think it should at least documented.

DST is a complete stupidity, doubly so when the rules change... (which fortunately hasn't happened in Germany for 10 years - hey, don't get any stupid ideas now! :crazy: )

[Zac67]

Oh well, here we go...  :idea:  :-o

[Zac67]

Oh yes, folks - those of you Europeans having set up a fake time zone, don't forget to reset it now that the US have joined us in winter time.

[Zac67]

Methuselas wrote:

Actually, it's true. It does conserve energy "on paper", if you do the math.

A whopping ONE percent.....

... by using up (at least) THREE percent additional energy and causing millions of EUR/GBP/USD/... to be spent for measures (hardware, software, manpower) to cope with it - grand idea from the start. :-P

[Zac67]

Here we go again - just noticed that all times are 1 hour ahead unless I fake my TZ to GMT instead of MET.

I realize it's not that easy to fix but I'd appreciate an option to deactivate DST for an account. That way we wouldn't have to try to find out when the US start with DST - just imagine what our friends 'down under' have to do to their TZ settings to get it right throughout the year...

If this can't be done either, please consider posting a short 'DST settings changed' each time they do.

[Zac67]

Well, the US Americans were the first - this year. ;-)

[Zac67]

DST just seems such a mess. Not enough that it vary with country. It vary when it occurs, and that using non straightforward rules. Now it also seems that those rules change arbitrarily.

At least for EU it's pretty easy: DST starts last sunday in March and ends last sunday in October - at least it's been that way since 1996.