[time-nuts] Yukon to make Daylight Saving Time permanent after final time change Sunday

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2020-03-06T10:10:28-0500 GERRY ASHTON hath writ:
> I just got a 2020 car which offers to sync the clock on the
> instrument panel to the GPS receiver.  But the time zone and
> observance of DST must be set manually.  In principle, if the position
> is known, the time zone and DST can be looked up.

Take this over to the IANA tz list where even there they will assert
that the last sentence is beyond their purview and therefore "somebody
else's problem".  Better strategy is to sync the clock to cell phone
signals and let that "somebody else" be the phone company who are at
least being paid to address the problem.

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