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From: jl2012@xbt•hk
To: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
	Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>,
	Cory Fields <cory@coryfields•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:01:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e66cbd62135915d86318ce5e73788ab@xbt.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJgMzvcR8O1pQDFVAp2Ndu-a7-VoCtckcPSogQvMUqa6a55bA@mail.gmail.com>

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@gmail•com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
>> <bitcoin-dev@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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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-21 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-18  1:07 Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-18  2:56 ` Alex Morcos
2015-09-18  4:19   ` Peter Todd
2015-09-18  4:30 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-18  4:57 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-18  7:04   ` Jonas Schnelli
2015-09-18  8:20     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-18 20:14 ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 20:24   ` Btc Drak
2015-09-18 20:27     ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 20:30       ` Jeffrey Paul
2015-09-18 20:34         ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 20:31       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-18 20:34         ` Btc Drak
2015-09-21 13:01           ` jl2012 [this message]
2015-09-18 20:36         ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 21:50     ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-18 23:29       ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-18 21:50     ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-21 13:29 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-21 13:51   ` gb
2015-09-22 14:03     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan

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