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Well, as far as I can tell, going to work based on sunlight levels is one of the main "benefits" of DST. However, like I said, it makes no sense to me. It seems

Well, as far as I can tell, going to work based on sunlight levels is one of the main "benefits" of DST. However, like I said, it makes no sense to me. It seems you have two options to get this benefit: 1) Have workdays begin at x o'clock in the morning most of the year, and x+1 o'clock in the summer 2) Change the whole meaning of x o'clock in the summer To me, the overhead for option 1 seems way lower. Then again, the "benefits" of timezones don't make sense to me either. The exact same logic can be applied to those as well - if workdays in Europe begin at x o'clock, they could just begin at x+7 o'clock in the US east coast.

mrtksn 9y ago
Which one is easier? To arrange all businesses and public institutions to change working times so they can continue do business for the first and last hour or have a central authority that does it for you? What if one school pick one time, a bank another and a business another? What if they do it at different dates? You used to take your kid to school at 9 but now for two weeks you have to go to work late because the school changed the working hours 2 weeks earlier than your workplace. Oh also the bank now closes earlier, good luck with that too. It's much easier if the clock changes overnight. You usually have few people who oversleep or come to the office too early and you have a laugh but that's it. These days all the clocks are computers and they just take care of the change and you don't even notice it.
- sunaurus 9y ago
  > Which one is easier? To arrange all businesses and public institutions to change working times so they can continue do business for the first and last hour or have a central authority that does it for you? I too think that having a central authority do this would be easier, but I don't see why this means we need DST? To me, it seems far simpler to just have the central authority dictate (for example) a +1h start to work/schooldays in the summer. No need to turn clocks.
  - mrtksn 9y ago
    Even though Turkey is approaching a dictatorship, I don't think that Erdogan will be able to micromanage businesses. What do you do to those who don't? Jail time? It's super easy with the clock, the TV says that now it's 7:45 instead of 6:45 and it is 6:45. You look at your iPhone, the iPhone agrees. No police involved.

mrtksn 9y ago

Which one is easier? To arrange all businesses and public institutions to change working times so they can continue do business for the first and last hour or have a central authority that does it for you? What if one school pick one time, a bank another and a business another? What if they do it at different dates? You used to take your kid to school at 9 but now for two weeks you have to go to work late because the school changed the working hours 2 weeks earlier than your workplace. Oh also the bank now closes earlier, good luck with that too. It's much easier if the clock changes overnight. You usually have few people who oversleep or come to the office too early and you have a laugh but that's it. These days all the clocks are computers and they just take care of the change and you don't even notice it.

sunaurus 9y ago
> Which one is easier? To arrange all businesses and public institutions to change working times so they can continue do business for the first and last hour or have a central authority that does it for you? I too think that having a central authority do this would be easier, but I don't see why this means we need DST? To me, it seems far simpler to just have the central authority dictate (for example) a +1h start to work/schooldays in the summer. No need to turn clocks.
- mrtksn 9y ago
  Even though Turkey is approaching a dictatorship, I don't think that Erdogan will be able to micromanage businesses. What do you do to those who don't? Jail time? It's super easy with the clock, the TV says that now it's 7:45 instead of 6:45 and it is 6:45. You look at your iPhone, the iPhone agrees. No police involved.