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And yet when I ask my fellow Swedes to get rid of daylight savings I hear "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" wa
by pimmen 9y ago
And yet when I ask my fellow Swedes to get rid of daylight savings I hear "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" way too often.
The inertia of complacency is very hard to change through grass roots movements, a big government decision like this is what's needed. Sweden voted against changing to right hand side when there was a referendum about it so the government had to force it.
- Bromskloss 9y ago> "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" What? The habit of changing the clocks twice a year?
- bonesss 9y ago> "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" Heh, isn't switching habits overnight literally what daylight savings time is? To avoid all the problems what we need is for everyone to stop changing overnight. I also head comments like that. I'm not sure what they think happened a hundred years ago when this was implemented, or why our digital signage, real-time communication networks, and mobile phones would make such an implementation harder than it was then...