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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

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[–] mattd@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I think you’re talking about this, which the article says used to called Julian date

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date