Zoning In

Here in the US, we all jumped our clocks ahead (for perhaps maybe one of the final times) and that event surfaced this interesting deep dive onto my radar: the Time Zone Database. In a fascinating 14-minute read, Daniel Rosehill goes into two key details that are, no joke, keeping an essential part of the internet running. The first is the actual database itself. This is one that has been in existence for decades and computers running macOS and Linux use to retrieve their time zone information. This is baked into the operating system itself. That’s how important it is.…

Permanent Savings

With yet another shifting of the clocks forward to begin Daylight Saving Time, the frustration I (and many others) shared with super-early sunsets was alleviated. Finally we got back to a time I prefer where it will get dark at sometime closer to 6:30 than 5:30. Then out of nowhere, it seems this change is on its way to becoming permanent. Without any sort of fanfare or reporting before the fact, the United States Senate voted on the “Sunshine Protection Act” (talk about an over-dramatic name!) that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent beginning in 2023. Sam Machkovech at Ars…