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Richard Rost
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DST is Still Dumb

It's time for my semi-annual repost of this video to hopefully combat the dumb practice of changing our clocks twice a year. And to make things worse this year, I had to change clocks twice in as many weeks. I took a little trip to Europe last week. I arrived on the 24th of October and had to change clocks on the 27th, and then I flew home on November 1st and had to change clocks again on the third. Talk about punishment.

This year I'm going to go so far as to say let's get rid of time zones too; they're stupid. I had to figure out the time zone differences between Florida and Germany and Greece, and it's just all crazy. Everybody should be on UTC time. That way, it's 9:00 a.m. for everybody on the planet at the same time; you just have to figure out what your local sun-up and sun-down times are. But I'll be happy with just getting rid of the clock changes.  Oh, and switching everybody to the ISO date format.

What do you think? Do you like changing the clocks? Do you want to stick with just daylight saving time or standard time? Tell me your thoughts below.

For a complete video tutorial on this topic, please visit https://599cd.com/DSTStillDumb?key=Dev.To

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