This is admittedly not a huge thing but windows used to notify you on your desktop of upcoming DST changes. 1 week in advance they would tell you “hey fyi, DST will start on this date at this time.”

They don’t do that anymore. No reason given, no way to bring it back. Not even third-party software exist to do this and just this. They’re deciding how you use your computer for you and you’ll like it.

I had to spend 15 minutes manually inputting the dates in my phone calendar and I was like… wtf am I even doing that. This is exactly the kind of stuff technology is supposed to solve. We have AI, we have cloud technology, we have all these cool things (if you’re a developer I guess), but we can’t do something as simple as notifying people of actual real life impact stuff. It’s so much more important that instagram let you know someone you’ve never heard of has posted something. What did they post? Open the app to find out! Because we won’t tell you! And the fucking AI summary on iphones lmao.

Of course all electronic clocks nowadays automatically switch to DST but it’s still something I want to know, and not all my clocks know to switch. It’s always jarring waking up one morning and seeing my phone say one time and my oven say another time (though maybe soon ovens with built-in clocks will be a luxury lol). That’s when I realize we switched to DST - if I only had connected clocks I would never even know we still do DST. And that’s no way to live.

Oh and you know the worst part? My phone knows about DST in advance, because when I went to put in the dates in my agenda, it skipped over 2AM. It just doesn’t think to do a fucking notification for it twice a year. It’s a huawei fyi, and I have my problems with huawei. 6 years ago they were a great choice, quality of an iphone (if that means anything) at a mid-range price. Now they’re expensive and aren’t really adapted to local markets. Like my phone gives me birthday notifications 1 week in advance. I don’t know if that’s significant in Chinese culture but in the west we don’t care lol, just tell me on the morning of their birthday. Can’t change it anywhere either. For the price I paid this really shouldn’t be happening - sometimes also the calendar completely forgets to notify me of something I had put into it.

  • bunbun@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    11 days ago

    What an interesting gripe. Personally I’d say it’s dst itself that is pointless and confusing, causing strokes and car crashes. Rather than the device that automatically handles it not notifying you to change the oven clock.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
      13·
      11 days ago

      The EU has been talking about abolishing DST for 10 years now and they’re not any closer to it. They couldn’t figure themselves out of a paper bag. So in the meantime, I have to live with it. The least tech could do – especially since they used to do it without any issues – is simplify our lives as long as we have it.

      • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        10 days ago

        They decided to abolish it, but left it up to member states. The reason being DST doesn’t work usefully in the north, but it works in the south.

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    10 days ago

    Personally I prefer to not know about DST and just sleep through it on a weekend. I used to have real trouble with it but then one year no one told me about the jump forward so I thought I just slept an hour longer that morning and didn’t know till later that day. It was nice. Ever since then I have told people in my life, multiple times, not to tell me about DST. And without fail, someone always fucking says something.

    It’s such a stupid fucking thing to exist. It’s all Canadas fault too. They had the first officially mandated DST. It’s why they always say “sorry” and it should be required by international law that they have to eternally apologize for this stupid fucking curse on mankind.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      11 days ago

      It just makes me sadder 😭 it’s true, windows sucks and you keep fighting against it to do basic shit that I remember it doing just fine in the days of XP.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        11 days ago

        Damn. 😔 One of the more galling things about it that I notice is the thing with updates they push so hard now. On Windows 10 Home, I’m “allowed” to postpone updates for somewhere around a month (I forget the exact limit) before I have to either take them or postpone it again. And my pet peeve about it is, if it was truly just about security fixes, okay, fine, that’s not terrible inherently. But it’s not just that. They want to push changes (which can break things) and features (which were not asked for) alongside it.

        And I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever taken an update for Windows 10 and had it be something that was both positive and noticeable / relevant for me.