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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 03:53:01 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   It's pretty jarring how a few weeks after equinox it's like somebody flicked a switch and suddenly it's dusk at 18.

   The sine wave goes really fast around 0.

   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 03:53:00 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke Does hk have silly savings time? That's coming soon to jar the circadians too.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 03:55:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @gemlog Bless the British Empire and the People's Republic, Hong Kong has never suffered that nonsense. We're on UTC+8 all year round.

     We're about five degrees west of 120°E, geographical UTC+8, so we're on 20 minutes "permanent daylight saving" (and so is Beijing), so sunset is not centered around 18, it's at 17:40 at winter solstice and at 19:00 at summer solstice, and that's why we weren't at 18:00 already at equinox.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 04:11:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Kermode

     @gemlog @lnxw48a1 Bless the British Empire and the People's Republic, Hong Kong has never suffered that nonsense. We're on UTC+8 all year round.

     We're about five degrees west of 120°E, geographical UTC+8, so we're on 20 minutes "permanent daylight saving" (and so is Beijing), so sunset is not centered around 18, it's at 17:40 at winter solstice and at 19:00 at summer solstice, and that's why we weren't at 18:00 already at equinox.

     The EU still has DST, even though they decided four years ago to eliminate it, so in two weeks we'll be 7 h ahead of Sweden rather than 6 h ahead of Sweden.

     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} likes this.
   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 15:15:10 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke My province of British Columbia decided to eliminate it, but hasn't enacted the law yet. So stupid.
     Parts of my province don't do DST - the town of Creston never changes their clocks and, in the north east, Fort Nelson, Dawson Creek and Fort St. John don't use DST either. What a mess. The province of Saskatchewan doesn't use it and the Yukon territory doesn't either.
     Meanwhile, here on fedi, our friends in europe change back from DST a week earlier than we @lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 15:15:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Kermode
     @gemlog At least the EU aligned their switchover times between themselves in the 90s. Must have been a real mess before then. I think Sweden and Germany had their switchovers 2-3 weeks apart.