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I have to rethink my priorities I guess.
I think there should be one clock for the entire planet and fuck timezones. Most people don't actually care about what specific number hour the sun rises. Zenith at 4? Fuckit. Communication between people is more important than the movement of celestial bodies.
In my country daylights savings makes even less sense. We are already out of sync with solar time, because of Hitler. The Netherlands should follow GMT not CET. When the Netherlands was occupied ze Germans instated CET. So setting the clock back during summer will actually make the Netherlands almost 2 hours out of sync with the sun.
Just move the damn clock 30 min, everybody looses/everybody wins.
Why do we need to change the clock twice a year when we know how many downsides there are?
It fucking sucks
There's been numerous referandums on the subject in which people have had the opportunity to vote on dealing with this shit.
Option A) leave it as is.
Option B) permanent DST
Option C) permanent whatever the other option is called.
Since getting rid of changing the clocks 2 times per year gets split between 2 different solutions, not fixing it wins the vote.
24% spike in heart attacks on the Monday after setting the clock forward
Is this true? If so, that's a pretty crazy statistic.
Iirc the heart attacks even out over the span of a few weeks, so Idk about the others.
Iirc the heart attacks even out over the span of a few weeks, so Idk about the others.
Did you get it, or...
I hate daylight savings time so much.
Do other countries do this stupid shit? We can't even do time right
As an Indian, no we don't.
shorter work days mean longer work days in summer. No thanks
Shorter work days? The corporate and government bastards would add a week or month to the calendar, especially in the 3rd World countries, China and USA. Those folks would embrace it with their stupid work hard beyond the point of diminishing return attitude while the civilized 1st World countries would revolt.
I just strongly dislike my biorhythms being thrown out of whack for several weeks twice a year.
Yeah. It ending is a nice little treat I dont mind because Im able to sleep in and I get to be like "oh wow it feels so much later but it's only 5 we have so much time!" for a few days until I adjust, but losing an hour in the spring can go to hell.
We dont even get anything out of it. Towards the end of daylight savings in october it's actually darker in the mornings when you wake up which sucks cause it switches off just in time for it to also get darker earlier due to winter. Whats the pro of springing forwards? The sun fully sets at 9 instead of 8 in the summer? Admittedly I do love long summer days, but if lets be real that tradeoff is minimal(and kinda annoying if you have young kids).
Theres like a 2 week period in spring where its like "oh neat the sun is still up" in the evening. The whole thing is dumb.
Even in October when the clocks are turned back and we "get an extra hour" it still fucks with my body's internal clock. And it takes weeks for me to adjust to the regular time.
I mean... I have young kids with delacate sleep schedules, and I just want them to stop fucking with the clock. Please just pick a lane and stay in it.
Hmmm they make a strong case. We should think about trying this.
The real problem with daylight savings time is that we haven’t killed and devoured the oligarchy/hegemony/kakistocracy.
Ok but I want to work less earlier rather than later.
There is another solution: live far enough up north and the day disappears totally eventually.
I live up north and I can tell you DST makes fuck-all difference after a week here.
There are only 2 days, summer and winter. All DST do is mess with my sleep pattern twice a year.
Can we just pick one time and stick to it instead of swapping twice a year?
A lot of places are doing that, but they're making the stupid decision to keep DST all year, which means that solar noon is at 1pm.
Just keep it the same all year. Keep solar noon at 12pm. If you think it's dangerous for kids to be catching the bus in the dark in winter, start school 1 hour later. If that means parents might need to stay home longer to see their kids off to school, start work later.
This isn't rocket surgery. Adjust the work and school schedule, not the clock.