Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-09-18 📝 Original message:On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-09-18
📝 Original message:On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Google Calendar is localized, but has an option to change the timezone
> of an event, it just doesnt have UTC in its options. So, yes, we should
> use something that observes DST in roughly the same way as everyone else
> - CEST/PDT/EST/etc.
uh. There is fairly little global consistency in DST usage. Lots of
places do dst on different dates.
So if it's in some DST timezone it's likely to move twice each change
for some subset of the people who do it.
E.g. europe and US end DST one week apart.
📝 Original message:On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Google Calendar is localized, but has an option to change the timezone
> of an event, it just doesnt have UTC in its options. So, yes, we should
> use something that observes DST in roughly the same way as everyone else
> - CEST/PDT/EST/etc.
uh. There is fairly little global consistency in DST usage. Lots of
places do dst on different dates.
So if it's in some DST timezone it's likely to move twice each change
for some subset of the people who do it.
E.g. europe and US end DST one week apart.