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by gsnedders 2837 days ago
In the EU, the start date is predictable: the last Sunday in March. The end is equally predictable: the last Sunday in October.
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Interesting.

I suppose that consistency could’ve given some EU only companies enough rope to hang themselves. Really, doing things the right way is easier than hand-writing some code that assumes DST starts/ends on a fixed date—at least in a language with a real date/time library.