Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027

OsrsNeedsf2P

manually rolled datetime library screams

zombot

WTF. They should abolish DST.

thendrill

So... Cuba is the voice of reason? Yehh Europe is loosing its mind.. I belive this whole clock fliopity flip twice a year is a huge contributing factor to people's "unbalance", and worsening mental state... Especially the northern parts.... We humans are creatures of habit... Mess with the circadian rhythm of en entire population and expect no adverse effect.... Mhm checks out.

phgn

Nice! I don't really care if we end up on daylight savings or not, just stop this time change madness finally please!

boonzeet

40 odd lines just for handling Cuba alone, amazing

wafflemaker

If they still move time back in spring, they will gain 1h per person. If they keep doing it indefinitely, they're looking at some serious profits and boost to GDP.

gvieri

I really hope that Italy will follow... Every single time adjustment (or jet lag) is a drama for me.

Svip

This article mentions that Cuba tried permanent summer time in 2004-06. This makes me wonder, has anyone ever tried permanent summer time and not given up? I know Russia attempted in 2011-2013[1] (before switching to permanent standard time), and the US did it in 1974[2] before going back. I know British Columbia did it this year, but I wonder how long that will last. BC is pretty North, and I wonder how local Canadians will feel about the very dark mornings in winter. [1] https://timeinrussia.com/daylight-saving-russia/ [2] https://www.newsweek.com/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-sav... Edit: Updated comment to say "permanent summer time", since "permanent DST" is rather incompatible a statement.

torvald

From what I've gathered, this is the plan for all EU countries as well. But the pandemic has stalled the overall process. https://jp.ibtimes.com/eu-clock-change-plan-stalled-104949

throwaway27448

I don't understand the obsession with keeping the perfectly vertical sun at noon given we all work from dark to dark under winter time. What would actually help us experience daylight would NOT be moving the clocks or moving work an hour earlier or a few hours later

therealfigtree

I'm curious how disruptive this would be from a database perspective ? For eg, All the flight bookings to/from Cuba needs to be updated because it would have originally accounted for DST.

timonoko

I have totally solved all issues. I have additional pointer on my watchface for the true position of the sun. https://photos.app.goo.gl/M95bW4XWR2NDUup46

RandomSwedish

God, I would love if the EU actually got going with it.

dsign

Does anybody what's the status with solar power there? Seems like the country would have plenty of sun to use. I know that some private people in the island are running almost 24x7 on solar and batteries, but most private people, companies and specially the government are still in blackout.

tomkarho

Good for them. Hope that shames the rest of the world (looking at you EU) to action too.

aussieguy1234

This makes sense given all of the power outages largely caused by U.S. sanctions. You would in this scenario want to have more daylight extending into the night time hours.

presentation

I thought that DST was dumb until I moved to Tokyo and find it sad that sunset is at 4pm in the winter

ComSubVie

I hope the EU will follow soon. Or at least my home country. Since the EU already has different time zones, the stalling because "all should have the same time" doesn't make sense.

igleria

Here in Ireland we already changed the clock on 25/10

WinstonSmith84

If we could just all stick to UTC in the world... DST is just a (North) American and European invention, nobody in the world follow that non sense. And whether DST or Winter time, it doesn't matter, just choose one or the other, it can only be better than the current situation