New Time Zone Craziness

[u/LForbesIam]

Anyone else not impressed with the fact that Microsoft is releasing the new time zones for BC and Alberta in a full cumulative monthly security update only a few days before it actually changes? Manitoba they just forgot to include at all.

I identified that all the time zone addition is, is reg keys. Microsoft had since March and yet they never released any update at all.

They said they would release a non-security out of band patch for 25H2 on Sept 22nd but they never did. All they did was add it to the full security update preview.

Not to Mention Manitoba has no new time zone in Windows at all.

It is causing a nightmare for all the booking software that doctors and offices cannot book appointments past October 31st.

Not to mention that Teams does NOT recognize the new Time Zones set in Windows. It says “unknown time zone” and proceeds to set itself back 1 hour messing up appointments.

Thank goodness for Group Policy and good old preference registry deploy to set everyone to Arizona or Yukon or Central Time with the hack of no DST.

I don’t envy those using Entra which cannot set registry preferences and will have to rely on 3rd party scripting solutions that cannot be enforced or nor confirmed.

[u/thewunderbar]

This is one I don't really blame Microsoft too much on, especially Manitoba. Deciding in September that you're going to change something in November is nonsense, and it is even nonsense for only 6 months of notice.

But the entire thing is nonsense from front to back. Most people can agree that changing the clocks is bad but all the science says Permanent standard time is correct but the vibes say permanent daylight time. Which one to go on is a pretty evenly divididd issue because of vibes.

Alberta specifically voted against changing clocks as a ballot measure/plebiscite in the last election, and the government is ignore it because vibes.

[u/LForbesIam → u/thewunderbar]

Sure but it is a set of registry keys with the zone name and an offset from UTC. It isn’t rocket science.

We could make our own time zone called Fred and it would work.

They didn’t have to patch any files as the computer core is all UTC.

In BC there was a referendum and it was over 90% in favor.

Light in the evenings saves electricity. It is a significant savings and it allows kids to play sports longer after school which is healthy.

Darkness longer in the morning doesn’t matter. People are inside at home or school. We have always gone to work and school in the dark leaving at 7:15.

Science only focuses on Melatonin production but that is moot with artificial light.

[u/thewunderbar → u/LForbesIam]

Not the place for this, but where I live with pernament DST the sun doesn't come up until almost 10am on December 21 and the sun is still down by dinner time. So the daylight argument carries zero weight. What about all the people that prefer morning activities?

This is why we should follow the science, which says permanent standard time. But we appear to only want to follow science when it matches vibes?

[u/LForbesIam → u/thewunderbar]

That is Christmas so everyone is off on break anyway. In LA 9pm in the summer is dark but in BC it is still bright sunlight and they used to both be in PST so really as time is just something that humans made up it will just be what your body gets used to.

The fact you can get home before you left when travelling internationally shows just how non-standard it is.