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Comment by hannasanarion

Palestine switched off Daylight Saving Time this year with only 4 days notice.

Anyone involved with bookkeeping and synchronizing should already know to never attempt to handle time conversions using your own program logic updated by hand, because the definition of time is constantly changing and there are already projects like tzdata dedicated to centralizing the handling of it.

There have already been 5 time zone updates this year, 4 changes to the date that Palestine switches daylight savings (one of them with only four days notice!) and Fiji decided to quit using daylight saving time, plus the Leap Second announced on July 9.

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