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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Ok but hes actually got it backwards. Standard time is those four months in winter, and we use daylight savings time during the summer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

True. But depending on where on earth you are located and what time zone that location follows, DST is closer to the real Solar Time (12 o’clock is Solar noon). Like Poland follows CEST but in the eastern part of the country the Solar time is close to an hour ahead. So DST is more in sync to the actual natural time.

[–] Tja 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CE(S)T reaches all the way to Finisterre in (Spanish) Galicia, well past Greenwich, which should be one hour behind, so basically at least 3 times zones. I blame Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both to be pedantic. Hitler put France on it, Franco decided that the fascist world should share a time zone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Universal Fascist Time. Don’t tell Trump.

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