Urgh... Can we hardfork time? It's clearly in need of an upgrade...

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.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 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.
>
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