OT: Daylight savings time, damm programmers

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What hate? I find the whole concept humorous.

Simple people do tend to find simple concepts humorous.

 

[Sylvia Else]

I don't know why anyone has to change their clocks. Just go to work an
hour earlier in the Spring and an hour later in the Fall.

And when you arrive at the station to get your train to go to work, you
discover that fewer trains actually run in the rush hour, because the
timetable hasn't been altered, or you find yourself in a traffic jam
because the contraflow system is still set for non-peak hour traffic.

A lot more than just the times for going to work has to change. It's
hardly practical. So much simpler to change the clock twice a year, and
then forget about it.

Sylvia.

 

[Nobody]

The approach I prefer (Linux-based) is to leave the hardware clock set
to UTC at all times. It never has to change between standard and DST,
since UTC doesn't do daylight savings time at all.

Dunno if this is possible with any particular Windows variant.

It isn't

So if you need to dual-boot, the RTC has to be set to local time. This can
be a nuisance if you have an unclean reset (e.g. power failure) and the
DST status has changed since the last boot. If you need to dual-boot,
rembember to run "hwclock --systohc" whenever the DST status changes
(or even via a daily cron job).