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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. Re:Didn't we just argue over this? by fwr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That would be changing it four times a year. You'd have to set it back manually the three weeks before the current start of DST. Then, you'd have to set it again when the device changed the time on it's own, on the existing DST date. Then you'd need to do the opposite towards the end. You'd need to reset it back when the device changed it on the existing date, then set it forward on the new DST date.