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I thought that days were 24h long, regardless.
(I adapt my schedule based on when I need to do stuff in daylight. I don’t see value in changing timekeeping twice a year to achieve the same effect.)
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That works until it doesn’t due to things like:
Late or early meetings
Daycare drop off / pick up
School drop off / pick up
Or pretty much anything that you coordinate with other people. My friend have meetings, daycare, and other scheduled events, as well.
It’s great to be back on the good time. We really should just keep it this way for eternity.
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I’m reminded that one of the usual arguments against year-round DST is “our kids will catch the bus before sunrise”.
The obvious answer would be to start school later.
(Actually, an even better response would be to split the difference, and shift to the average of standard and DST.)
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Yeah, let’s go Newfoundland on the bit.
One weekend, I actually went through an exercise of how one might select time zone boundaries given objectives like “minimize daylight hours before 6am”, “minimize days where 7am is dark”, and “maximize days where 5pm is light”.
The three options I came up with were essentially:
- Tweaks to existing time zone lines, retain DST but revert to essentially the old change dates
- Abolish DST, but have New York City & Washington DC in different time zones, San Francisco and LA in different time zones, and St. Louis and either (Kansas City or Chicago) in different time zones
- Time zone boundaries very similar to existing boundaries, but shifted to the half-hour between standard time and DST
Having the continental US on UTC -4.5/-5.5/-6.5/-7.5 time wouldn’t be as weird as the difference between Newfoundland Time and the rest of Canada’s time zones. Sure, North America would potentially be a half-hour out of sync with Europe, Japan, … but the US already deals with being out-of-sync on systems of measurement, and those of us who work with folks in India don’t really think about India being on an odd time offset (UTC +5.5).
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I absolutely hate moving to DST and losing this hour!
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I agree schools should do this.
Yeah, before we had to coordinate w/ the kids’ schools, we just kept our house on standard time the year-round.
As a super-early morning person, I hate DST. We call it Devil/Satan Time in our house.
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Be safe on the roads today everyone. Lotta tired drivers today, which is worse than drunk drivers.
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The sun is up, and my alarm clock just went off. The world is in sync.
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Couldn’t care what schedule we’re on as long as we stop changing it. Tis is a silly idea.
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It was still dark when I left for work. I’m confused as to how DST gives you light in the morning.
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How did it look when you took your sunglasses off?
Alright, we got the clocks right where I like them. Let’s keep them here!!!
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