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1. Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 04:13:53 UTC Deborah Pickett

   With my sysadmin hat on: I don't care what people end up calling a time zone, but I will lend my pitchfork to any group that advocates abolishing changing the clocks twice a year.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 04:15:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • David de Groot 𓆉
     @dadegroot @futzle I didn't know anyone was still actively arguing for. I thought it was all about "but which timzeone should we keep", "what are the transition costs" etc at this point.
   • David de Groot 𓆉 (dadegroot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 04:15:42 UTC David de Groot 𓆉

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     @futzle luckily Qld hasn’t fallen victim to the insanity of DST yet. Despite a lot of new arrivals from down south advocating for it.

   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 04:17:14 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     • Duncan Hart

     @duncanhart Well not it’s not but NTP happens only in UTC so unless I want to import tzdata and keep it updated to reflect the whims of $jurisdiction then it doesn’t prevent the need for pitchforks.

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   • Duncan Hart (duncanhart@mastodon.duncanhart.com)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 04:17:32 UTC Duncan Hart

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     @futzle is it too much to ask for a kitchen range cooker clock to sync to an NTP time server?

   • David de Groot 𓆉 (dadegroot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 05:01:44 UTC David de Groot 𓆉

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @futzle There's still an active movement in South East Queensland, mostly fuelled by people who have migrated from NSW and Victoria, who want "more daylight after work".
     My argument has always been those people need to negotiate different hours with their employers.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 05:05:32 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • David de Groot 𓆉
     @dadegroot @futzle Yeah, it's extra funny in Sweden when people make that argument, because it only really matters for a couple of weeks around the equinoxes anyway. Closer to midsummer they'll have more evening light than they'll care to make use of either way.
   • Matthew "Smiffy" Smith (grumpysmiffy@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 06:33:29 UTC Matthew "Smiffy" Smith

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @dadegroot @clacke @futzle Daylight after work? Sounds like a townie thing, or at least people who don't have to do anything outside. Us country folk have to put up doing our morning chores in darkness - already. (Sun doesn't rise until an hour after I get up, and it's only March.)

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   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 12:54:35 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     I’ve said this before, but I think China Miéville missed a beat when he wrote _The City and the City_ and didn’t have Besźel and Ul Qoma observing different time zones.

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   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 12:54:54 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     Ideally, one of them at UTC+2 and the other at UTC+1:30, each with different daylight saving transition dates. Imagine the cacophony of the town hall clocks! (Though of course you’d only hear your one, don’t want to invite Breach do we?)

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