Ah yes, few things are as reliable as the post DST petition.
If people started doing this BEFORE the switch I might actually remember to change all my (dumb)clocks.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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Can we do it after they give me my hour of sleep back though? I suspect they'd just do it after the stupid "spring forward" and rob us of that precious hour
I'd rather be on permanent daylight saving time since I hate it when it gets dark so early.
Don't be picky.
Nah, I'll be picky because this shit fucks me up for months. Going back the other way messes me up for a much shorter time.
Fucking normies and their daytime schedules lol. Us night walkers get no respect π
I can't relate, since we don't change the clocks ever in Saskatchewan. I always considered it rather dumb that most of NA does.
It used to mess up my tv shows as a kid, now that was annoying.
Regardless, it would be a once time thing and over with, so really a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah, I've never understood it either. I think right now those of us stuck messing with clocks are in the "fake" time though, aren't we?
Can't help you there without looking it up myself.
Do Feb 29th next
That's not the same thing and would lead to calendar drift pretty quickly.
Just take a day from another 31 day month.
No. I want daylight savings time all year round. Standard time is balls.
I couldn't care less about which mode we're on. It's like debating if we should remain sitting down or standing up to avoid getting punched in the face or the dick. Just stop fucking hitting us!
I want more sunlight in the evening for my activities after my 9-5 job!
What's the fucking point of having sunlight at 5am if I'm fucking sleeping?
Maybe we also should talk about not needing to work so many hours that it's necessary to ration the sun then, too.
9-5 is not too many hours. It having to be 9-5 is a bigger problem.
If this guy could work 8-4 instead, the clock choice would not matter.
It still kinda does though, wouldn't you rather have an extra hour of light after you get home than have it get light after you're at work regardless?
9-5 is not too many hours.
Yes, it is.
ooh, maybe that's what we should do... during the winter months when there's less daylight we can shift our working hours, then in the summer months we can shift our working hours back. Then there's no need to change the time!
That's what they do in (at least part of) China.
I think the whole world just adopt a single time. We'd just get used to midday being 9pm and eating dinner at 2am. No more time zones to worry about.
It would make it so much harder to schedule meetings if I didn't have a handy internationally standardized conversation table that was incorporated into all software to help me know when someone's working hours are.
Not as simple as that because first: Timezones make it pretty obvious that you have to think or even calculate if it's currently the day or middle of the night. If you want to call someone in another country it's obvious that you'd first have to figure out their local time. If everyone used the same time than this would be easy, but you would've still have to figure out which time range is day time and night time so no benefit there.
For a lot of countries that would also mean that every "solar day" will be two calender days. You wake up at 19:00 March 1st. and just before lunch the date switches to March 2nd. It would be a mess.
It would make it so much harder. With time zones I have additional information beyond UTC.
UTC is a thing and used by many industries!
I've said that for years now, bring back Swatch .beats!
It's a shame it never caught on, especially in the internet age.
Worldwide UTC now!
China only has has one time zone for the whole country. Daylight savings can go, but I can understand that because of the earths orbit around the sun there is a need for time zones, I think most people agree that wherever you are, 6am should be morning time, unless everyone wants to move over to military time, and just have a 24 hour clock. It would take some getting used to, but that would be the only way to truly get rid of time zones.
Much of Europe is already using 24hr time.
I can see why, but you also have to consider before the invention of the clock we used sun dials to tell time, so that would effect how to tell what time it is in your particular time zone. I understand that is archaic technology in the modern world, but that is why time zones were invented and still relevant. Ask anyone that works in technology, old habits die hard, and by die hard, they go out kicking and screaming. Some SQL databases I've seen still run Solaris which has been a dead product for like ten years, navy boats that don't connect to the Internet still run windows 95 (believe it or not, I don't care, but I have seen them recently).
Solaris and Windows 95 are not as old as it gets.
There is still plenty of OS/2. In fact, you can still buy it! https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
And of course, there is lots of DOS left in the wild as well.
I am sure there are some Vaxen still kicking around, especially in the military. I worked for a company that used a lot of DEC Alpha stuff when it was bleeding edge. To my knowledge, their customers are still using it.
I'm not unfamiliar with running DOSBOX just to talk to some old machines that by all logic should have seen EOL 20 years ago...
And then you go to a different country and suddenly you don't know when you eat dinner.
I don't know about you, but I eat when I'm hungry.
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