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DST does not change the length of the days. If your shift begins at an inconvenient hour, or your timezone is misaligned to your astronomical time, those probl
by torstenvl 9y ago
DST does not change the length of the days.
If your shift begins at an inconvenient hour, or your timezone is misaligned to your astronomical time, those problems do not require manually fiddling with time by multiple countries to solve.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoBeing pedantic is not lovely. Of course it changes the daylight hours we enjoy outside of working hours. During work most of us are indoors anyway.
- drb91 9y agoWell, you could just adjust when you work. No reason to alter time to get this effect. Personally, I haven’t noticed any more day with DST. I’d much rather have the daylight in the morning anyway! Meanwhile, it’d be lovely to hear why you appreciate the “extra” time in the evening but don’t notice the missing hour in the morning, and why you’re ok with that.
- etatoby 9y agoAdjusting the time when you work is not an option for 99% of people. Also, an extra hour of light in in the morning is barely noticeable to most people, who are struggling to wake up, get dressed, deal with family, and commute to work in time, to even notice whether the sun is out yet or not. In the evening, on the contrary, most people go out and have fun, so an extra hour of light is a big deal.
- drb91 9y agoWell, it’s definitely at least as much an option as passing a law forcing people to change their conception of time for.... people with 9-5 jobs? Since when do we value those people more than others?
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoLike, almost everybody? Since Democracy.
- salvar 9y agoSure it does. If "day" refers to how many daylight-hours coincide with the standard workday. Which the grandparent was doing.
- bluejekyll 9y agoDevil’s advocate: why don’t we all just use UTC? Get rid of time zones, those are only a human conveniences as well...
- BerislavLopac 9y agoPossibly something to do with "we all" being mostly human... ;-)
- salvar 9y agoWell, human conveniences tend to be convenient to humans. So I guess that's why we don't get rid of timezones.
- tzs 9y agoUniversal UTC does not change the need people have to know how approximate solar time locally maps to approximate solar time at some different longitude. E.g., you are in Munich and want to call your friend in Tokyo. You want to call him at a time that is not too early in the morning for him, or not too late in the evening for him. Let's say you want to call him at lunch time, which you both take around solar noon. Under the current system, where the time in each time zone approximates local solar time, that means he takes lunch around the same clock time you do, which is 12:00. The question you ask yourself is "When his clock says 12:00, what does my clock say?". You answer that by subtracting the time zone difference (which is 8 hours), so you get that you should call him when you clock says 4:00. Now let's do this with universal UTC. Your clocks no longer approximate local solar time. Solar noon is around 11:00 clock time at your place. The question you want to ask now is "What time is his solar noon?". Since his solar time is approximately 8 hours ahead of your solar time, you answer it exactly the same way. You subtract 8 hours from the time from the UTC time you have lunch to get the UTC time he has lunch, so 3:00. As long as people keep their activities lined up with approximate local solar time and people need to sync things with people whose solar time is significantly different than theirs, we need something like time zones.