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Sahuagin posted...

I meant implementing it in the world, not just as a legislator. The point being, I would not want to be the person who is making a decision like this where potentially everyone in the world will be affected by my possibly stupid decision.

also thinking of it as a programmer where now the already horrendously complicated calculation of dates and times will now be yet another small amount more complicated.

It'd be a transition, but it'd ultimately be simpler than the current approach of having to figure out which time zone a given person is in based on what the date is instead of just going by where they are. This would effectively be a matter of shuffling time zones around permanently instead of having to account for them being shuffled around twice a year.

VampireCoyote posted...

do they even do DST globally

No, but countries that don't do it often have to interact with countries that do, so it still needs to be taken into account. That's further complicated by many regions that do it using a different schedule from the one Canada and the US use, rather than being able to use a single pair of dates globally.