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Hard-coded yearly transitions for a particular region, because they just have to have their own, special rules? Transitioning to DST on Sunday at -01:00 (minus one o'clock)? Or at 24:00?

Honestly, the IT world has a certain amount of influence. There comes a time where we could collectively just say "no". No, you are not that special, use any of the already incredibly flexible options that you have.



> There comes a time where we could collectively just say "no"

Well, C23 mandates a byte is 8 bits, and POSIX 2024 disallows newlines in filename, so we do exercise that right times to times.


I think you've got who's serving whom the wrong way round.




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