On: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer n...

[petre]

We have endless problems with DST as well. I can't wait for the EU directive that abolishes it. Russia dropped it years ago. We'll still have to support past times and other timezones though.

[meepso → petre]

I wonder how long time it will take to forget DST if it is abolished. Will that messy spaghetti code be ripped out and never seen again.

[jon-wood → meepso]

Most standard libraries still have support for the Julian calendar. That stuff is never going away.

[jki275 → jon-wood]

Julian calendar is still used by the US Navy. Every supply department office you go into has a conversion table up on the wall.

[mkl → jon-wood]

I doubt it's "most". Python, Javascript, and C++ don't seem to. The only ones I found that do seem to are C# and Java.

[inlined → mkl]

I just got a ruby gem from someone who actually made tables on the stuff. I made a script that cut out far past and future times to lower loading time from 10m to 30s and figured I could upgrade the gem to leverage an expert’s research as timezones changed (e.g. India changing zones)