Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDE831363 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:35:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com (mail-wi0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D7F21AF for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so78352762wic.1 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:35:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=gWO07on9lKAoE2JIw4Bn3P0aemNpvFjOOvMQEb7kWPo=; b=BHxB6Lo0kclC7v40hhvjaIX2vVVzFZ8qnBHbp4FtH/j3/WwnyXW5za5YNInm3EEmyV N+7k5NR7vzHTi4EbjUvgyg9Rqa0BG12cITvmw/tCqGbLB8rAAFFRQsRIz6nZu9YfALf8 IkmK2HKV/mOSxZ5GiUWtyKAiV1eTs1bN2QHunivW+RSJrY1Gxpk+5e7RCcoeiv4G2FZX 7chL5oAynPVKfgk65amA7K2GFDwXbhYnbgHQvpdhREAiBNgXraVN6LJ9/vktDzP8XR4j Nr8ENmF8wXuHhhKDj5znfgXE1Tt6e/TNYe1y3gpBoKaZJ2BKLmGgDMtgAUCHdJ519MqX 5URQ== X-Received: by 10.180.9.112 with SMTP id y16mr191464wia.28.1442608519233; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:35:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.21.200 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:34:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20150918010709.GB5251@amethyst.visucore.com> <55FC70A5.9080603@mattcorallo.com> <55FC7394.4060901@mattcorallo.com> From: Btc Drak Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:34:59 +0100 Message-ID: To: Gregory Maxwell Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c24ae656c48205200b7812 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, FREEMAIL_FROM, HK_RANDOM_ENVFROM, HK_RANDOM_FROM, HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list , Cory Fields , Pieter Wuille Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:35:24 -0000 --001a11c24ae656c48205200b7812 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Urgh... Can we hardfork time? It's clearly in need of an upgrade... On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Google Calendar is localized, but has an option to change the timezone > > of an event, it just doesnt have UTC in its options. So, yes, we should > > use something that observes DST in roughly the same way as everyone else > > - CEST/PDT/EST/etc. > > uh. There is fairly little global consistency in DST usage. Lots of > places do dst on different dates. > > So if it's in some DST timezone it's likely to move twice each change > for some subset of the people who do it. > > E.g. europe and US end DST one week apart. > --001a11c24ae656c48205200b7812 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Urgh... Can we hardfork time? It's clearly in need of = an upgrade...

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
On F= ri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@li= sts.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Google Calendar is localized, but has an option to change the timezone=
> of an event, it just doesnt have UTC in its options. So, yes, we shoul= d
> use something that observes DST in roughly the same way as everyone el= se
> - CEST/PDT/EST/etc.

uh. There is fairly little global consistency in DST usage. Lots of<= br> places do dst on different dates.

So if it's in some DST timezone it's likely to move twice each chan= ge
for some subset of the people who do it.

E.g. europe and US end DST one week apart.

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