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> Yes, but in the end that's not their fault, and in a sense it's good that this happened.

I am reminded of the US DST changes back in the 2000s: there was all sorts of drama because a lot of software is written in the US, and there was much 'computerization' in the 1990s, but US coders had never personally experienced a DST rule change during that time period, so any change needed a reboot to pick up the new rules.

That drama led to (e.g.) periodic dynamic checking of /etc/localtime on various Unix-y system.

Sometimes you don't realize that things can be improved until you experience situations in which they currently suck.

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The leadership page is comedy gold ("Leadership That Inspires Trust"):

> He has wide experience spanning over 45 years in Banking, Financial Services and Technology Industry. His profound understanding of the digital security landscape has been instrumental in eMudhra's global expansion and innovation. ...

> A thought leader and author, Mr. Srinivasan penned "New Age Management Philosophy from Ancient Indian Wisdom," ...

> Under his visionary leadership, eMudhra has become a cornerstone in digital security, known for its pioneering solutions and steadfast adherence to global standards.

https://emudhra.com/en-us/leadership

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The CEO guy had 45 years of experience and still managed to make a mistake that would get a high school student an 'F' on their hw assignment.

It takes much less than 45 years to forget almost everything that was taught at high school

You say comedy gold. However in Vishwaguru Indian universe they are much vaunted South Indian Brahmins who anyone in the world accept that they are the best in anything they do. Hence they are pure gold.

Tell Congress to change the rules again soon, lest a new generation of programmers become complacent and hardcode transitions again. Many current junior programmers don’t remember the 2000s rule change.

I can even hear this conversation happening: what? I need to open this America/Los_Angeles file just to convert a timestamp? What pretentious overengineering! I want a single-file executable with zero dependencies. Let me hard code the rules.

There's a bunch of changes recently / coming up in Canada, so that might be good enough. I've started occasionally reading the tzdb mailing list archives for fun because of that.

> I want a single-file executable with zero dependencies.

Isn't this what Go programs are to a certain extent?

Yes. Get ready for Go programs produced by inexperienced programmers to do DST conversion incorrectly after the next rule change.

(Actually Go allows you to embed the tz database instead of forcing you to hardcode, so I hope this issue won’t be very widespread.)

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