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We can move timezone after 3000 years, when difference will be 1 hour and noticeable.

Yep. Timezone definitions already change regularly due to governments messing around with time; so software is already set up to handle this case.

Though I wonder what happens with the international dateline -- would it shift around the world, or would the UTC offsets get larger and larger? I imagine the latter would eventually also result in software issues when the UTC offset starts exceeding 24h.

There are moves to abolish DST and I suspect that after that happens timezones will ossify, which will make it difficult to use them to compensate for a large DUT1. And after 1000 years of gradually shifting daylight, people will probably be used to noon being a bit late and may well prefer it.

In a thousand years it is quiet possible there will be sizable enough population off of earth that trying to align time with the variable rotation of the earth will be seen as pointless Terracentrism

Maybe 1500 years and 30 min.

I've created a ticket in the backlog for this!

Maybe 750 years and 15 min.

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