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

@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.