As is topical I ponder the scrapping of summer time.
AFAIK it was a wartime thing and helped get workers working more, some such. These days we have so much more lighting it is lot a safety issue.
Obviously I’d prefer UTC (aka GMT). Going UTC+1 makes zero sense to me. Given the size of EU it does not even help much with trade. It would also be a betrayal to those that worked hard making GMT in the first place.
But one cited issue is the updates to so much kit. Well I am not convinced… [more]
Yes, a lot of key equipment can cope, anything windows, Linux, Mac, already have timezone setting and would simply be right on the next update prior to any changeover and ready for it.
Even IoT kit is likely to use some timezone based logic. All my ESP32 code uses a timezone string, and I would update the default.
Long wave radio set stuff would cope.
But kit that cannot cope, and has no “update” system probably needs replacing anyway!
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But how could we make it easier?
A lot gradually adoption of UTC for somethings - people stating the time in BST and UTC on things for the year before, including on TV, etc. More gradually adoption of stating a time and “UTC” to be clear. A sort of soft launch of UTC as a stated time before it becomes the legal civil time default.
Thoughts?
