▲ 32 ▼ Leap seconds were one-second adjustments occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) between 1972 and 2016 (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 3 weeks ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children) DST is the dumbest thing ever and needs to die. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) It would be dark at 9am where I am on some winter days without it. Without standard time, I'd get woken up at 4:30am though, some days. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 weeks ago I've lived in Norway, so I know all about sunlight and the lack of it. There's no benefit to DST that couldn't be obtained by other methods, without messing with time and messing up everybody who has international connections. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child) It would be dark at 9am where I am on some winter days without it. Without standard time, I'd get woken up at 4:30am though, some days. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 weeks ago I've lived in Norway, so I know all about sunlight and the lack of it. There's no benefit to DST that couldn't be obtained by other methods, without messing with time and messing up everybody who has international connections. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 weeks ago I've lived in Norway, so I know all about sunlight and the lack of it. There's no benefit to DST that couldn't be obtained by other methods, without messing with time and messing up everybody who has international connections. permalink fedilink source parent