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Originally Posted by Jim
Someone suggested making a monthly 10 minutes change rather than a twice a year hourly one... add 10 minutes/month for six months, then take back 10 minutes per month for the next six. It keeps things closer to normal rhythms and makes it easier to adjust.
Of course, I wouldn't envy the employees at the local clock or watch shops.
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Too complicated.
The Swedes tried something in a similar vein when changing from the Julian to Gregorian calendars. Instead of adjusting all at once, they'd lose the days by not putting in Feb 29th on leap years, so there would be no "missing" days.
It failed pretty spectacularly.
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/node3.html (scroll down to the note at the end of 2.2.4)