You have the perfect nickname for a BSD enthusiast. The whole reason I wound up running Linux was BSDickhead elitism. I had done multiple installs of various Unixes including SunOS on a sun3, which is not only BSD, it's weird and you have to do weird shit to install it. But since the BSD documentation was shit at the time that told you nothing you needed to know, I found myself a little stuck on stupid shit like how big my partitions should be. I even know some FreeBSD users and as it turned out, they were fucking worthless and treated me like an idiot for asking questions the documentation would have answered if it were any good.

So I installed slackware and that was that, the install was trivial, the community was orders of magnitude more helpful and welcoming, the documentation was actually useful. I've installed a lot of different BSDs over the years (including on some IBM model 135s for example) and literally all of them were better than FreeBSD was then, even the ones that are older than that!

BSDicks can only blame themselves for Linux eating their lunch.

"BSD today is bigger than Linux."

Hahhahahahahahbahahabbahaha

Right. The statement "Keeping DST means that the sun rises an hour later in the Winter" is untrue. Even if the entire US congress agreed, it won't make the sun rise earlier or later.

To make it true you have to write out the implicit bit that you meant but didn't say:

Keeping DST means that the sun rises an hour later relative to locally defined civil time. We agree laws can't affect the sun, so what they change is locally defined civil time.

Logically, we can flip the relative relationship to say: "keeping DST means that locally defined civil time is an hour earlier (than it would have been without permanent DST) relative to when the sun rises." Since the sunrise is constant we can drop it from the statement entirely to get "keeping DST means that locally defined civil time is an hour earlier (than it would have been without permanent DST)."

The vast majority of people don't get up much earlier in the morning than they have to to be at work on time. For those people, the last statement is equivalent to mine. It not only "works logically," it is what is actually happening. Ignoring that implicit relative in your statement gives rise to all kinds of silliness like "Sunshine protection act" and even "daylight savings time." No sunshine is being protected, nor daylight saved.

As you point out, DST makes you wake up an hour earlier. The transition to doing that is what people dislike. They tend to like the transition to not doing it in the fall, although some people still complain because they have OCD and they haven't figured out how to set the VCR clock yet. The bit we don't like is getting up earlier, and the proposal is to do that all the time.

When you actually look at it logically you realize something else: pretty much everybody is free to observe permanent DST whenever they want. All they have to do is get up an hour earlier in the winter than they would otherwise, i.e. at the same time they would in the summer. No time changes. Hardly anyone actually does this. Your boss probably isn't going to be mad if you get to work early. They're certainly not going to be mad if you get up early and enjoy an extra hour in the winter to do whatever you want. Yet almost nobody does this. Almost everyone gets up as late as they can and still meet their social obligations. Especially in the winter.

I wonder why?

"That is a complete fluke, an accident."

Completely wrong.

"What the world wanted was Unix running on inexpensive commodity PC hardware. That's it."

Right, the average user does not give a shit about the license. But wrong, because how they got it was from people who do care. BSD already existed and they could already be contributing to it, but they chose not to. And they made that choice specifically based on the license, which we know because so many major contributors told us so. You are ignoring what they said because it suits your prejudice.

Being from India is not to blame, it's being clueless and distant about the business at hand. The worst software I have made is when I didn't understand the domain side.

Iran also abused advertising technology used to serve tailored ads to cellphone users,

The Soviets used to say, "The capitalists will sell us the rope we'll use to hang them."

space ships and stations get a much higher amount of external radiation than Earth...and they needed to make sure it wouldn't interfere with the scans.

Just tape the film-stock on your leg and stick it out the window, free x-ray source.

I can't find it because your grep is not working ;-)

I don't think the logic really works there

Just to clarify, you think that DST makes the sun rise later rather than than making people get up earlier?

Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue

It is. All the incresed heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and whatnot you hear about associated with the time change are also associated with living on the eastern side of a timezone, except every day, not just the one special day a year.

US states can all switch to permanent standard time whenever they want. Some already have. There's a federal law that specifically prohibits switching to permanent DST because the whole country did it in the 70s and hated it so much they not only switched back but made it illegal for everyone.

But everyone (now) thinks they want permanent DST because long summer evenings are nice and they can't remember how much getting up an hour earlier in the winter sucks.

No, it was popular prior to clocks. You got up at sunrise because, as a diurnal animal, that's what your biology likes to do. Some people, many farmers for example, still do this.

"When the sun comes up" is hard to define exactly. The sun isn't a point so you have to decide whether it's the top, bottom, middle, whatever. There's lots of refraction too, so you see the sun come up before it actually does. So when we invented clocks we started using noon as a standard rather than sunrise. It's relatively easy to precisely determine the time of local noon, when the sun reaches its highest point.

The two are different, and that's the source of the problem. Noon stays the same year round, sunrise varies. DST is an attempt to use noon-based time but shift it to be a bit closer to sunrise-based time.

We hear about how the US is pretty authoritarian, but they actually send inspectors to your house to check your clocks? Do you go to jail if you don't change them, or is it just a fine? Is it the FBI that does the raids or is that one of the Secret Service jobs?

That was a thing, but it was resolved well before Linux became popular.

IME FreeBSD is realistically almost all drawbacks because development happens on Linux. OpenBSD has its selling point I guess, but my personal experiences with it taught me that if you aren't qualified to fix your own problems with e.g. the kernel, you should avoid it. NetBSD has some meaning as the last available OS for a lot of old hardware, so I guess there's that? In-kernel ZFS is cool but hardly worth the hassle unless what you are building is a pure filer, when the unbundled ZFS works well enough.

Yeah, you could shift them forward in March and back in October or November.