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SllX on Sept 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time

I share your position on DST, but wouldn’t treat tropical nations as recommended guidance on DST issues in non-tropical parts of the world. There’s less variance (read: not zero, just substantially less) in their daytime hours than there is in ours.

vechagup on Sept 23, 2021 [–]

Yeah, 11:19 hours of daylight at the trough, 12:57 at the peak: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/samoa/apia. The case for DST is exceptionally weak at those latitudes.

SllX on Sept 23, 2021 | [–]

Exactly!

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