2019-03-31

I generally believe that getting rid of daylight saving time (DST) is a good thing, which the EU just decided that European countries should do, starting in 2021. There are several annoying aspects of societies that switch to and from DST, and this is the start of a series where I list a few annoyances that affect me, as well as some of the upsides.

2019-04-01

Daylight saving time (DST) further complicates the already convoluted timezone handling in applications. This has both good and bad consequences, but as a programmer, I frequently worry that the systems I work with will handle DST incorrectly. In the last year, I have been working extensively on a system, where we transmit and store dates and times in the local timezone, but never explicitly stating what that timezone is.

2019-04-03

I've long prided myself as someone barely affected by jet lag, likely because of my never sticking to any regular sleep schedule. For this reason, I've generally not been affected by daylight saving time (DST), but this spring, I believe I've been negatively affected by the DST switch.

2019-04-09

There's something jarring about daylight saving time (DST). It messes up my sense of beauty and consistency. Below you'll find a quite beautiful map of timezones around the world. You'll notice that, for the most part, countries' timezones roughly correspond to their longitudes; the colors showing timezones are in fairly straight lines from south to north.