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Stop playing games with time. Instead of year-long daylight saving time, I'd rather we stick with standard time all year long.
by riffic 11y ago
Stop playing games with time. Instead of year-long daylight saving time, I'd rather we stick with standard time all year long.
- xixi77 11y agoCare to explain why?
- nostrademons 11y agoI think he's saying that if you're going to make daylight-savings time permanent, it's become the "standard", so why not call it standard time? Anyway, what the article is really saying is that people should work 8-4 instead of 9-5, because then they commute home before it gets dark and are at less risk for muggings, robberies, and rapes. Which is true, but it's kinda silly that to get there we should just change the meaning of time rather than the hours we work. Then again, maybe that is the most effective way to effect society-wide change.
- xixi77 11y agoWell, (1) it's an easy way to solve the coordination problem, and (2) is MUCH lower cost through having to update every single instance where a person or organization's working hours are mentioned :)
- riffic 11y agoI'm not saying to implement year long DST and call it standard time. We already have Standard time. Daylight saving time is Standard time +1 hour. My idea would be to stay on this, all year long, without pushing the clocks ahead/back twice a year.
- qyv 11y agoInvariably when I am trying to setup some kind of international conf call I cant help but think that communication would be easier without timezones. Imagine the ease of coordinating world-wide tele-meetings if everyone just understood and used UTC. Yes technology often uses it under the hood, but if used it societally things would be so much simpler.
- hugh4 11y agoThough then you're just swapping that for the problem of remembering stuff like "Is 2am GMT a good time to call Japan?"
- kuschku 11y agoJapan will be around +10 hours, so it’s 12h – sure, noon. Remembering which country is where is standard in school, roughly estimating timezones from that is easy (US varies from -8 to -4, most of europe is 0 or +1 or +2, as is most of Africa, Russia is +3, middle east is around +3 and +4, china is +8, just like singapore and japan; australia, new zealand are between +10 and +12; I have no idea what the actual data is, just saying what I remember based on knowing the world map) As everyone knows GMT, and everyone knows the world map, the issue is solved.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoPeople do understand and use UTC. Google calendar is even smart enough to "translate" an event to your timezone. If I get an email with an event in a different timezone and put it on your Google Calendar it actually goes on your calendar in your local time zone. This screwed me up once when I moved to the other side of the world and forgot to update my timezone in Google.
- ino 11y agoWhich is which? I'd rather have it like when it's summer in the northern hemisphere the whole year.
- skrause 11y agoDST is basically forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier which I'm not a big fan of. If people want to see more daylight in the summer, they should just get up at 5 am voluntarily.
- barney54 11y agoNaw. I like the extra light in the afternoon. I'd vote for permanent double daylight savings time.