A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 11:24 UTC (Fri) by tonyfinn (guest, #144891)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by hkario
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

I know for Ireland, the answer is going to pretty much dictated by "what the UK does". Consistency across our one land border and the desire to keep connections with Northern Ireland is going to trump whatever DST decision France or Sweden make.

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 14:10 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

And, of course, showing just how much politics is involved, there is always the wild card of Irish Reunification - the possibility that NI will diverge by enough from GB that it leaves the UK and the island of Ireland becomes one country. Or if something truly weird and currently unlikely happens, and the island reunifies because Ireland joins the UK instead of remaining a republic.

Irish reunification as a political event is unlikely to be timed conveniently for timezone shifts; we could well have something where the "Europe/Dublin" timezone follows GB until reunification and then changes to UTC+0 or UTC+1 all year round.

Timezones are inherently a political matter, and they (unfortunately) don't respect the desires of computer people.