Wasn't daylight savings time designed specifically for this man?
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It's a common myth that farmers want daylight savings, but farmers are actually usually quite opposed to it. Daylight savings was originally proposed as a way to conserve energy, but it wasn't put into practice until the world wars, where energy conservation was actually important.
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No. Cows need milking at the same time of day every day regardless of how humans fuck with the clock.
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Ok but hes actually got it backwards. Standard time is those four months in winter, and we use daylight savings time during the summer.
True. But depending on where on earth you are located and what time zone that location follows, DST is closer to the real Solar Time (12 o’clock is Solar noon). Like Poland follows CEST but in the eastern part of the country the Solar time is close to an hour ahead. So DST is more in sync to the actual natural time.
CE(S)T reaches all the way to Finisterre in (Spanish) Galicia, well past Greenwich, which should be one hour behind, so basically at least 3 times zones. I blame Hitler.
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Which is why I specify tz database timezones, like "America/New York". Pick the one that's the city closest to you and will be on the same daylight savings time switchover dates. Then don't worry about specifying EST or EDT or whatever.
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It’s for big candy big bbq to have more daylight to sell more candy and bbq before the sun goes down
I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don't actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.
It becomes a problem when you now have to work at other times and when you have to go shopping in the morning/evening.
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I’ve never heard anyone who likes DST… this thread confirms my bias. Arizona has it right. We have internet now, no need to change clocks, just update your schedules for the season.
I like DST. I just don't like changing the clocks. Permanent DST would be the ideal imo
They tried that for a year or two in the 70s. Everyone hated it.
"Everyone" hates the status quo, too. And I bet if we made it standard time year round, "everyone" would hate that.
To clarify, they hated it enough to change it back to switching twice a year.
Who is "they"? Also, most of the world doesn't have DST and they seem to be doing okay.
The US at least I think some of Europe was involved, and that's what I was saying. We tried full time DST and it doesn't work.
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I would go one step further, just get rid of timezone completely and just get up at different times depending on where you are on the planet.
So instead of looking up what time it is somewhere, you'd have to look up their local offset and mentally recalibrate what all the numbers mean in relation to time of day?
That sounds an awful lot like timezones. I already do this when I'm in a different timezone or when someone else I know is.
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Please think how confusing this would be to talk to your overseas friends. It doesn't actually solve the issue, just pushes the confusion into a different metric that is also hard to track. People in 23/24 time zones will also have a "different" schedule to adapt to.
"It's 10AM here. What time is it there?" "Also 10AM." "Oh. Um.. the sunrise is at 7AM here, so 3 hours past that. What about you?" "Well, the sunset is at 5AM here, so it's almost bedtime." "Let's meet tomorrow night then." Do you mean when the clock says PM, or when it's physically dark here?"
It's a contrived example because you wouldn't ask "what time is it there?" in a world where everywhere uses the same timezone
Yes. That's the point. What question would you ask otherwise? Because it's not a standard question that exists right now.
It's introducing a new concept that's just as confusing, but without a common reference point. "When is day for you?" "What's your light schedule?"
If you want to use a single time for everyone, we already have GMT, no one uses it for daily use because it's obtuse as hell if you don't live within an hour or two of it.
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If it's only four months then he doesn't care about standard time, we are actually on daylight savings time for the majority of the year.
Which is pretty wild when you think about it. The darkest, coldest, most depressing time if the year we let the sun set super early.
I don't care which is used, so long as it sticks to one
most depressing time
For some of us summer is the most depressing time of the year js
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Isn't daylight savings time 8 months of the year? The four "winter" months are when we're on standard time, so seems like it would be pretty easy to ignore DST during those 4 months. Or maybe I am misinterpreting?
For some people who can't be fucked to care about it (like me, and the person in the original post) it's the changing of the clocks we call daylight saving(s) time, not a particular time zone designation or whatever.
"Don't forget, it's daylight savings time this weekend"... "not again! which way do I move my clock?"
We don't care about the details and we don't care what it's acktually called, we just want to never do it again. Pick a time and stick with it.
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