Ah, yes, the United States. Under a federal (i.e., national) statute, the so-called Uniform Time Act of 1966, daylight saving time is uniform throughout the United States, except for the opt-out states of Hawaii and Arizona (except for Navaho territories within Arizona, which do observe daylight saving time), and except for several overseas territories of the United States. Even a computer should not be required to put up with this patchwork of nonsense.

I agree with the others who advocated use of UTC, which is uniform worldwide and which anyone can convert to local time.

Steven Finell

From: Wikitech-ambassadors [mailto:wikitech-ambassadors-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:43 AM
To: Wikimedia developers
Cc: Marko Obrovac; Development and Operations engineers; Wikitech Ambassadors; Operations Engineers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Additional European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also SWAT change)

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org> wrote:

(un)relatedly:
* EU survey to remove summertime/DST:
<https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2018-summertime-arrangements?surve
ylanguage=EN>
* California Proposition 7 (2018) to institute a permanent DST:
<https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_Daylight_Sa
ving_Time_Measure_(2018)>

Hopefully we can get rid of this problem at the root cause as well :)

You forgot about most of the rest of the US ;)

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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation