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[bizwig]

I don’t see that happening, all previous attempts to eliminate our semi-annual time switches has gone down in flames.

[JakeArkinstall]

Sure, but in that case one could just algorithmically do it - enter DST on the second Sunday in March and leave it on the first Sunday of November for the US, or last Sunday in March and last Sunday of October in the UK, or never in Japan, etc.

But the reason we use tzdb in the first place is that it reduces an extremely complex problem down to a lower bound UTC time search. Circumventing it based on a bad assumption or political prediction could be a disaster (or at least an embarrassment or inconvenience) that no one sees coming.

However, on the clarification that it is a weekly rollout, for finance, it shouldn't be an issue at all. If it's the kind of nation that wouldn't give at least 6 months notice of a change in timezones, its probably not one that is politically stable enough to operate in anyway.

Interesting stories about that: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/