Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027

Posted by n_plus_1_acc |2 hours ago |85 comments

Svip an hour ago[1 more]

This articles mentions that Cuba tried permanent DST in 2004-06. This makes me wonder, has anyone ever tried permanent DST and not given up? I know Russia attempted in 2011-2013[1] (before switching to permanent standard time), and the US did it in 1974[2] before going back. I know British Columbia did it this year, but I wonder how long that will last. BC is pretty North, and I wonder how local Canadians will feel about the very dark mornings in winter.

[1] https://timeinrussia.com/daylight-saving-russia/ [2] https://www.newsweek.com/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-sav...

gvieri an hour ago[2 more]

I really hope that Italy will follow... Every single time adjustment (or jet lag) is a drama for me.

ComSubVie 18 minutes ago

I hope the EU will follow soon. Or at least my home country. Since the EU already has different time zones, the stalling because "all should have the same time" doesn't make sense.

therealfigtree an hour ago[1 more]

I'm curious how disruptive this would be from a database perspective ? For eg, All the flight bookings to/from Cuba needs to be updated because it would have originally accounted for DST.

presentation 36 minutes ago[2 more]

I thought that DST was dumb until I moved to Tokyo and find it sad that sunset is at 4pm in the winter

wafflemaker an hour ago[2 more]

If they still move time back in spring, they will gain 1h per person.

If they keep doing it indefinitely, they're looking at some serious profits and boost to GDP.

torvald an hour ago[2 more]

From what I've gathered, this is the plan for all EU countries as well. But the pandemic has stalled the overall process.

https://jp.ibtimes.com/eu-clock-change-plan-stalled-104949

igleria 12 minutes ago

Here in Ireland we already changed the clock on 25/10

RandomSwedish an hour ago

God, I would love if the EU actually got going with it.

dsign an hour ago

Does anybody what's the status with solar power there? Seems like the country would have plenty of sun to use. I know that some private people in the island are running almost 24x7 on solar and batteries, but most private people, companies and specially the government are still in blackout.

phgn an hour ago[3 more]

Nice! I don't really care if we end up on daylight savings or not, just stop this time change madness finally please!

boonzeet an hour ago[1 more]

40 odd lines just for handling Cuba alone, amazing

timonoko an hour ago

I have totally solved all issues. I have additional pointer on my watchface for the true position of the sun. https://photos.app.goo.gl/M95bW4XWR2NDUup46

aussieguy1234 41 minutes ago

This makes sense given all of the power outages largely caused by U.S. sanctions. You would in this scenario want to have more daylight extending into the night time hours.

throwaway27448 an hour ago

I don't understand the obsession with keeping the perfectly vertical sun at noon given we all work from dark to dark under winter time. What would actually help us experience daylight would NOT be moving the clocks or moving work an hour earlier or a few hours later

OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago[1 more]

manually rolled datetime library screams

thendrill an hour ago[7 more]

So... Cuba is the voice of reason?

Yehh Europe is loosing its mind..

I belive this whole clock fliopity flip twice a year is a huge contributing factor to people's "unbalance", and worsening mental state... Especially the northern parts....

We humans are creatures of habit... Mess with the circadian rhythm of en entire population and expect no adverse effect.... Mhm checks out.

aaron695 an hour ago

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zombot an hour ago[1 more]

WTF. They should abolish DST.

tomkarho 42 minutes ago

Good for them. Hope that shames the rest of the world (looking at you EU) to action too.