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   Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:25:55 JST Ami Angelwings

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   The bills to remove the time switch aren't actually to get rid of DST but to make it the new time. It will get rid of the time switch back to Standard Time (the switch upcoming this weekend) and make the current time (DST) permanent since DST is already most of the year, 8 months (Mar-Nov) vs only 4 for ST. So we wouldn't be "getting rid of Daylight Savings Time", we'd actually be getting rid of Standard Time and making DST permanent.

   It's confusing because the colloquial way is just to refer to the time switch as "Daylight Savings Time", but that only applies to one particular time setting, not the switch itself.

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   Crashdoom :crashdoomMyaaa: 🔧 🔜 FC 2024 (crashdoom@furry.engineer)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 19:42:04 JST Crashdoom :crashdoomMyaaa: 🔧 🔜 FC 2024

   A reminder: Instance suspensions are, inherently, permanent.

   It’s like going into a server room and taking the nuclear option of severing cables instead of unplugging and rewiring them.

   Can you eventually reconnect them? Sort of. But, now you have to renegotiate DHCP leases, make sure your routes are set up correctly, find out why it’s connected but no one has internet access…

   tl;dr and analogy aside: Mastodon severs followers on permanently when you suspend a server. It’s not an undo-able action, it’s a permanent action, and many users have no idea how it works or how to save that data before it’s gone forever.