Comment on Or we could do metric time
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 months agoDevelopers are the only people against DST changes, just because of how complex it will get. Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!
Just please do it nationally yes or no
Dear God cities are removing DST! Cities! It means I need to know if you are in or out of a city to know if you need to be shown daylight or standard time!
That’s why it’s lucky that identifiers in the tz database are already things like America/New_York instead of “eastern time.”
Newfoundland has only just over 500k population and has a nice GMT-2:30 time zone. That’s an extra half hour difference. Many cities are larger so I can see them wanting better time for themselves.
Ugh. Any time I need to set up a meeting for IST.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Write everything in UTC, cast to local time zone for UIs
Life problems solved
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 months ago
That’s essentially what I did in my recent UI that I made for someone.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That… still requires knowing which time zone to display. It doesn’t remove the requirement at all.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 months ago
.localtime(utctime)
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
and who implements localtime? You realize these functions call down to the system, and the system is very much ALSO written and maintained by coders…