Yes, it’s the same result, but it would be hugely confusing to see something marked “Atlantic Daylight Time” in January. It should not be labeled as such.
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“Greenland Forever Time” ?
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I see no difference between this and Arizona being labelled “Mountain Standard Time” right now, when everyone else in the Mountain Time Zone is “Mountain Daylight Time” while they share the same time as the “Pacific Daylight Time”.
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But, but JANUARY!!!
You worry about some very strange things. Especially because I am willing to bet at least 90% of the US population doesn’t generally understand the difference between writing EST and EDT. People constantly write EST in the middle of the summer. All they care about is the time it says on their clock and the respective time difference between them and someone else. They don’t care if it is labeled ADT, AST, or Orange.
Greenland Time Forever Only
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Because most of the world has year-round standard time whereas DST has always been specifically reserved for “summer months” with varying definitions of “summer”.
The ignorance of many Americans is not a compelling argument for changing the definition of DST for the people who do understand what it means.
I am guessing the overwhelming majority of people who need to know what time it is in Greenland are not the ignorant Americans you are speaking about anyway.
Good lord. No one said anything about changing the definition of DST. It was an AP article, not a legal brief.
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Fixed. Some countries are more equal than others.
But, really, USA, pick one and stick with it. I honestly don’t care which (in the minority, IMO), though there are too many on each side of the S/D argument to ever agree.
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Do you consider Japan, South Korea, Iceland, much of Australia, Arizona, Hawaii, Saskatchewan to be third world? I don’t.
I agree that we should all just pick a time and stick with it though.
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Cherry-picking. That does not become you.
I always say “Eastern Time” or “Central Time” etc bc I can never remember which is Daylight and which is Standard.
Daylight is the summer time, because changing clocks to DST actually produces more daylight!! It’s a proven fact!!
I mean, sure, it would be nice if DST produced more daylight in the winter, but… it just doesn’t. Science.
Interesting picture of daylight observance (from wiki):
Note that colors indicate areas that are within 1 week of each other in their time change dates.
So, if I were going to go for countries to list, I think I would’ve gone with Russia (and allied Soviet states) and China for the examples to use; especially as neither are third world nations.
However, this is another interesting question in this context:
Top graph shows first, second, and third world alignments (which relate to political ideologies); bottom graph shows developed, developing, and “least developed” countries.
So . . .
Would be a better “fix” to make the statement more accurate.
I think if we were to look at population, I think we might see and equal split (
) between those living with daylight savings vs. not.
The maps probably correlate well with “Number of Timepieces” or “how important the time is in their universe.” And, it shouldn’t be, but here we are, worried about kids walking to school in the dark and wasting too much energy at night and all that.
I mean, most sundials are permanently fixed. Can’t rotate the whole thing slightly twice a year.
You mean to tell me that the only African country that uses daylight savings time is Egypt? And you want me to believe the whole DST concept is NOT a pyramid scheme?
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See and I always think Daylight is in winter bc that’s when we need it.
Would we though, with China and India (eta: and most of Africa) in the “not using DST” category?
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I really want to count the # of times the incorrect phrase, daylight savings time, has been used in this thread. But I’m too lazy.