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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:52pm on 2007-03-11 under

[livejournal.com profile] acroyear70 provided another reason for me to refer to DST as "Daylight Spending Time", with his glimpse into the costs of changing the start/end dates for DST (search for the phrase "crappy time" if you want to skip over the reasons I already mentioned -- or don't skip over it because he discusses it in much more detail and includes some relevant history). His back-of-a-napkin estimate is $10,000,000,000 spent just by folks maintaining systems that use Java, to deal with the change. Now that's some Daylight Spending!

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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 10:39pm on 2007-03-11
Maybe each time zone should just observe daylite savings in the spring each year til they're even with UTC :3
 
posted by [identity profile] austin-dern.livejournal.com at 04:12am on 2007-03-12

Um ... ten billion dollars is, roughly speaking, how much it cost to make all of Wikipedia's list of the most expensive movies ever made (unadjusted for inflation). I submit that the reasoning process behind this price tag may be flawed.


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