alt Hacker NewsI have yet to find a technological solution to this social problem.
Also, I have yet to encounter this problem. For personal events, I sleep during this time. For company events, we always avoid this time.
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rjrjrjrj • today at 12:17 AM
I have, in the context of time series charts. Lots of back and forth with QA.
mulmen • yesterday at 10:11 PM
You're right that for the most part this is avoided by convention and scheduling time changes at quiet times of day.
A bit contrived but consider you are a maintenance worker in a facility that uses isolated timekeeping devices. "Change the clock on the vault back one hour at 3:00am".
I encountered it when I was design the scheduling back-office for a LED video wall a few years ago when those became economical for a shop to own and run 24/7.
The customer probably never noticed if I even did it “correctly” or couldn't be bothered if I didn't, but I remember I was bothered by it: (1) ensuring continuity of programming during the gap when it jumps forward (2) solving the ambiguity when it went backwards.
Because obviously they wanted to think in local time.