On the one hand, it's disruptive and annoying. On the other hand, it has no practical benefits whatsoever. Hard to say whether it's good or bad, really.
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It's not disruptive enough. We should switch to metric while daylight savings is happening and switch back to imperial when it ends. Think of how many jobs would be created by constantly needing to change all the road signs.
Switch to metric time for the duration as well to really shake things up.
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Abolish all timezones and move to earth standard time on top of a 13 month calendar.
Thats what you have to look forward to when I'm dictator of the solar system.
You'll have to fight my duodecimal empire when we abolish the Base-10 system and implement Base-12 like it always should have been.
Over my dead base-60 body.
Signed, the Sexagesimal Gang
Hear me out folks - sexagesimal bear
Base-60 is just Base-12 with extra steps.
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Basically the only merit to it that I can think of is that it prevents kids from having to walk to school in the dark, but then again that could be remedied by not having school hours be absurdly early in the morning
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Get rid of it, changing the clock doesn't change where the sun is in the sky
I strongly prefer permanent standard time, because I prefer morning light to evening light. Also, the fact that states can choose permanent standard time without congressional approval means that people who are pro daylight saving are holding us back from abolishing time changes.
Scientists and medical experts agree: more morning light is beneficial for health since it sets the circadian rhythm for the day. Too much evening light delays sleep onset and makes it difficult for teens to get up in the morning.
Standard Time is the obvious choice and I will die on this hill.
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DST is classist and needs to be abolished along with landlords, borders, and cops.
I don't really have any strong opinions on it but watching there suddenly be way more/less hours of daylight is extremely amusing to me every 6 months without fail. i literally become the god damn soyjak pointing at the sun
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Fucking terrible, must be abolished. It solves no problems that would not be better solved by not making everyone work ungodly hours.
Should be banned. Should never have been adopted. Even in its original context it's a completely incoherent idea.
its bad folks
the real controversy is whether it should be permanent dst or permanent standard time
I vote for permanent DST, because this wintertime getting dark at 4:30pm bullshit sucks ass.
Winter sucking ass has a deep history in many cultures. Capitalists push their revisionist propaganda about why the magic of winter somehow means Timmy needs a new Nintendo and I’m sick of it. Make Winter Suck Ass Again.
If all the consumerism were excised from Christmas and the holiday was relegated back to December where it belongs, I might be able to tolerate it. Festive decorations are pretty, spending time with family is pretty great (also Christmas dinner slaps), and some of the old music (read: not any of that modern "I'm a famous artist buy my obligatory Christmas album" shit) is decently enjoyable, even if it's only the nostalgia speaking. I don't care for the religious angle, and the "Christmas is for Christ" ghouls can eat my entire ass since so much of the holiday was lifted from Pagan traditions, but the few non-religious parts of Christmas that haven't been turned into a capitalist lich are rather nice.
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I literally do not care which way we fall just stop the switching
I don’t follow time anymore ya know?
Do not make me get up an hour earlier I will fucking cut you.
On the other hand it is nice the park is open later but have you considered just adequately lighting the park bike paths?
changing the clocks sucks ass and it's completely asinine that we still have to do it
Death to America
It is the work of the devil and must be destroyed.
It sucks
it's dumb and I hate it. It's confusing and pointless.
also some people think it actually creates more sunlight which is so stupid I don't even know what to say in response
I like setting the clock back an hour because i can sleep in without waking up later. We should do it every month tbh.
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another point is that it's probably not great for animals with a strong internal clock
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