Daylight Saving Is Temporal Time Zones
- offset applied to UTC to get to local time
- that depends on your position {on Earth, in orbit around the sun}
- approximating a natural difference in available sunlight
- rules have changed in the past and probably will in the future
- for political reasons
Further reading:
- qntm’s “So You Want Continuous Time Zones”
- qntm’s “So You Want To Abolish Time Zones”
- Dave DeLong’s “Your Calendrical Fallicy Is…”
