[bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC

jl2012 at xbt.hk jl2012 at xbt.hk
Mon Sep 21 13:01:52 UTC 2015


It is possible to softfork. Just use Iceland time. Iceland time = UTC 
without DST

Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev 於 2015-09-18 16:34 寫到:
> Urgh... Can we hardfork time? It's clearly in need of an upgrade...
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
>> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> Google Calendar is localized, but has an option to change the
>> timezone
>>> of an event, it just doesnt have UTC in its options. So, yes, we
>> should
>>> use something that observes DST in roughly the same way as
>> everyone else
>>> - CEST/PDT/EST/etc.
>> 
>> uh. There is fairly little global consistency in DST usage. Lots of
>> places do dst on different dates.
>> 
>> So if it's in some DST timezone it's likely to move twice each
>> change
>> for some subset of the people who do it.
>> 
>> E.g. europe and US end DST one week apart.
> 
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