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A yes the week long period where articles about time changes flood the news and then get forgotten.
Call me when they switch to metric time.
Until then, I'm outta here.
Allow me to introduce you to the French Revolutionary calendar!! Each day had 10 hours, each hour had 100 minutes, and each minute had 100 seconds (for a total of 100,000 decimal seconds per day).
Each week was ten days long. There were twelve months, each of which were 3 weeks long. The five or six remaining days were "complementary days", and were tacked on to the end of the year. The complementary days weren't part of any month or week, and were national holidays.
This sounds fucking awesome
I’d rather have daylight in the evening during the winter them in the early morning. Really sucks leaving work in the dark.
I'm of the opposite opinion. I hate when I have to wake up while it's still dark outside, it makes me feel tired all day.
I can see that, it would be tough to wake up in the dark, and there are more accidents in the dark. I still want daylight after work.
where i live, they have a referendum every few years to debate whether we should get daylight time or not, then they have a trial. It gets beaten every time, but sure as anything, they're debating it a few years later.
I know changing anything is an uphill battle, but why not change a half hour once to average out things and be done?
I don’t enjoy trying to go to bed at 9:30PM during the summer and have the sun blaring thru my window. I’m fine with standard time.
The thing is, you have to look at sunrise too. Would you really want the sun beaming at you at 4:30 AM in the morning during the Summer Solstice ?
Switching is worse than either. It needs to stop.
I thought we had voted to end it. Did I dream that?
Googling it, it looks like it never got all the way through the legislature. Ugh...
Mitch McConnel shelved it during Trump's presidency, iirc or maybe that's just a fever dream.
My state has already passed legislation to stay year round in DST, if only our freaking Congress would approve it.
It's not so bad once you get used to it (and blackout curtains); it's the way it is here in Japan. Thankfully, we don't faff about with time changes here and my body's happier for it.
Personally I’m up at 5 anyway and my kid has to be up by 6 for school. But in a previous no kid life I wouldn’t prefer that either. Even within Eastern time zone there’s a difference between sunset times between a western edge in Kingston TN and Boston MA. No matter which way we go, someone is going to be dissatisfied.
A daylight savings time fell on my foot at work one time... that was a whole mess of workman's comp, OSHA and all that.
We should just set the entire world to UTC and be done in with it. There's no reason to keep an arbitrary unique time for each geographic zone anymore
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