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Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes?

Posted by Zonk on from the lots-of-work dept.

jason718 writes "With the pending changes to U.S. Daylight Savings Time, what impact will those changes have to existing systems and their applications? Are some operating systems more open than others with regard to the configuration of Daylight Savings Time start and end dates, or will we need yet another update or patch to modify the internal calendar?"

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  1. As long as we're making changes by ArmorFiend · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As long as we're making arbitrary changes that are going to **** over the system right good, I think we should make William Saphire happy and stop supporting the penny. Minting pennies costs a lot of money, and after all these years inflation has made them more trouble than they're worth. Worse than worthless, really, as handling them is a burden on cash-handling facilities like banks and stores.

    We should just round to the nearest nickel, as we currently do with half-cents.

    That's my 2cents.