[LEAPSECS] leap minute or hour

[Gerard Ashton]

The bill currently in the US Congress, the "Sunshine Protection Act"
(S. 623) illustrates the desire of politicians to wait for decades to
address an issue, and then go for the quick fix. The bill would establish
permanent daylight saving time. The slower approach would be to abolish
daylight saving time and let people work out a schedule they decide is the
best compromise between summer and winter.

Gerard Ashton

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 5:27 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
> Clive D.W. Feather writes:
>
> > Stick with what people are used to, which is (mostly) shifts of an hour.
>
> Yeah, well...
>
> That's the disadvantage of handling it at the political level:
>
> There is no discernible upper limit to how stupid politicians can be about
> timezones.
>
> Apart from 15 minute and 30 minute deltas, there is a clear tendency to
> make changes with far too short notice.
>
> The good news is that stupid timezone decisions can only hurt the
> geographical area controlled by the politicians, so there is a
> feedback-mechanism in place.
>
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