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Comment by mikestorrent | Hacker News Reader

Are you Yanks seriously not going to get this sorted out before winter? BC has moved - can at least the rest of Cascadia get their asses in gear? Come on, California, I do not want to be dealing with a north-south time zone difference with my coworkers

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Yes, we won't. It turns out that we're way too terrible at being rational way too much of the time.

For DST in particular: Even discussions where the participants manage to form something resembling a quorum to stop changing the clocks twice every year somehow manage to unilaterally get sucked into a seemingly-inescapable quagmire of differing opinions, wherein: The decision of whether to use standard time and stick with it or to stick with DST instead becomes an intractable impasse.

Accordingly, nothing ever gets done.

I have every expectation that I will be dead and buried before this issue is resolved.

I think US states aren't allowed to switch unless the feds decide to allow it

Arizona doesn’t have it

US States aren't allowed to have permanent DST, but they can have permanent standard time.

Then get BC to change it back

Hell no. Never going back.

We don’t really get much of anything sorted these days.

Tough shit. I live on the eastern edge of Central Time, I don't want to be dealing with 3PM sunsets in December.

Who gives a shit what time it happens at? It's not like you're actually making the day shorter or longer, man.

Because my schedule depends on my workday and everyone elses work day which doesn't shift around at all depending on the time of the year.

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