Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027 (timeanddate.com)
26 points by n_plus_1_acc an hour ago
torvald 5 minutes ago
From what I've gathered, this is the plan for all EU countries as well. But the pandemic has stalled the overall process.
w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 2 minutes ago
In EU it's currently stalled because some countries want to stay permanently on their DST time (south europe) and others (north europe) want to stay on their solar time.
It's better to make a common decison about this, so we are stalled.
therealfigtree a minute ago
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.
gvieri 14 minutes ago
I really hope that Italy will follow... Every single time adjustment (or jet lag) is a drama for me.
Heliosmaster 11 minutes ago
Fwiw last week my and my family kept our clocks in CEST. My son sleeps an hour longer in the morning. But we go to bed before 21. Aiuto!
mystifyingpoi 2 minutes ago
I hate DST switching, and since last 3 days I've tried to live as if DST didn't happen, go to sleep super early etc.
It completely fails when you account for everyone else around you. Could work if you live alone with flexible working hours. But having a semi-active social life and kids makes it impossible.
Svip 13 minutes ago
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...
wafflemaker 18 minutes ago
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.
vasco 4 minutes ago
This is Cuba we're talking about. Profits only matter if they go to the ruling family and friends.
throwaway27448 5 minutes 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
boonzeet 23 minutes ago
40 odd lines just for handling Cuba alone, amazing
thendrill 25 minutes ago
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.
sschueller 3 minutes ago
Switzerland never wanted it: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/daylight-saving-time-wh...
Boltgolt 22 minutes ago
Calling canceling a time change mere days before it was going to happen "the voice of reason" is rich
lloeki 19 minutes ago
"Days" is plenty of time, IIRC some tz changes happened hours before they had to come into effect!
jansan 17 minutes ago
The EU again is all talk and no action on this topic. 84% said in a poll to get rid of it back in 2018, parliament voted to end it by 2021. But here we are at the end of 2026 turning the clocks back again. Next march same thing. Honestly at this point I don't think it will ever happen, they will still be "discussing"it in 2040.
tchalla 16 minutes ago
That’s the downside of EU decision making.
echoangle 16 minutes ago
> and worsening mental state
How would something that has been in effect for at least 60 years still lead to a worsening mental state over time?
phgn 24 minutes ago
Nice! I don't really care if we end up on daylight savings or not, just stop this time change madness finally please!
Boltgolt 15 minutes ago
If you read the article it's the worst of both worlds: Keep clock time the same but start work and school 30 minutes later?
genxy 3 minutes ago
Shouldn't we just get up when the sun comes up? And if you can't see the sun, everyone can stay home.
ssl-3 20 minutes ago
This is the only reasonable and measured take.
(Unfortunately, it always gets derailed by highly-polarized discussions about whether to stay on DST forever or get rid of it forever. They'll be showing up here again soon enough.)
oddIdentities 15 minutes ago
It is a reasonable take but it is not the _only_ one - I think it is arguably more reasonable to transition away from DST to ordinary "best TZ granularity approximation to zenith-occurs-at-noon" time once, and then stay (and manage) that time over the millenia to come.
mhd 6 minutes ago
Swatch Beat time.
OsrsNeedsf2P an hour ago
manually rolled datetime library screams
xnorswap 27 minutes ago
They're all over it before we hear about it:
3 days ago: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/5b5b39dae16f787740b8c0d4...
It's not even the latest change to the library!
zombot 26 minutes ago
WTF. They should abolish DST.
F3nd0 25 minutes ago
Why?
mrweasel 11 minutes ago
I don't know it this will be the case for Cuba, as it's somewhat differently placed on the map, but Russia tried DST only and had to switch to standard time and then stayed there.
Some people absolutely loves DST for some reason, but it creates stress and mental problems for people, especially in the north. The long mornings are somehow worse than the short evenings. Technically it shouldn't matter what the clock shows, but when society insists on things happening at a certain time, whether or not the sun is out becomes important.
For the Russian case see: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28423647
oddIdentities 18 minutes ago
Because DST is the wrong time; if you look at the legal implementation of DST, most countries carve out exceptions for fields where lying about the time can obviously lead to death and destruction - navigation being perhaps the main one.
What everyone missed is that DST could itself lead to much greater loss of life than we might have lost had the use of DST been mandated all the way through to e.g. large naval, air or spacecraft.
And as research into DST continues, this seems to have been not merely an abstract possibility was missed, but _the actual outcome_. DST is quite literally killing people by the thousands.