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UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours
Anonymous Coward writes "In England it has been proposed that the clocks move forward by 2 hours this summer to give us more daylight time in the day, and hopefully in turn stimulate the economy. My question is what impact will this hold for computers that automatically adjust the time to British Summer Time? Could this cause another 'millennium Bug' fiasco?"
... it's the whole of the UK. Otherwise, you'd have to adjust your clocks when you drive from one country to another.
I wouldn't expect you Mexicans to know that though.
If you think THAT will help the economy, we're gonna spring forward FIVE FUCKING HOURS. Just think of the unwarranted extrapolations!
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England != UK. Can you lot in the United States of Florida PLEASE try to learn this.
And the extra sunlight fades my curtains faster...
I doubt it, since they would find themselves fired within 6 months.
There's usually somewhere in the rest of the world changes their DST policies on a yearly basis
That place usually seems to be somewhere in Argentina. For some reason, messing with exact timezone rules seems to be a national pastime there.
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