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About time! If people want to get up earlier or later, then they should do like the Iranians and go to work one hour earlier in the summer. Don't change the clo
by bjourne 8y ago
About time! If people want to get up earlier or later, then they should do like the Iranians and go to work one hour earlier in the summer. Don't change the clocks.
- lucb1e 8y agoI had no idea the Iranians do that, definitely an interesting idea.
- jxub 8y agoIn Spain something similar also happens: in August many companies let employees opt for "jornada intensiva" from 8am to 3pm instead of the usual 9am 6pm with an hour for lunch.
- scalesolved 8y agoYou end up so hungry doing that though :D
- astura 8y agoOnly for the first week or so, your body adjusts. At least mine adjusts pretty easily based on when its used to eating.
- dkersten 8y agoGiven that its pretty easy to go for a few days without eating, once you let your body adjust to it, this sounds plausible to me. Besides, on days when I’m not working, I can easily go until 4 or 5pm before eating (and then only eat once more before bed).
- gordaco 8y agoI've been doing that for more than five years. Not five summers: five whole years. I only very rarely eat at the office. I guarantee that your body will adjust after a little. In fact, you'll probably be surprised about how little it takes to get accustomed. In fact, I think this is why intermittent fasting is somewhat easy to adopt: it's surprisingly fast to adapt your body to a different meal schedule, as long as you're eating as much as you need.
- csomar 8y agoHappens in Tunisia too. (and probably more countries). There is a special administrative time for summer.
- amiraliakbari 8y agoIt is not a regular practice. This year, because of high electricity consumption, working hours was changed to 6:30-13:30 for government organizations. It was in effect for two months in hot cities. DST shift was applied at the start of spring anyways.
- _han 8y agoI agree, and you could even extrapolate that thought to getting rid of timezones altogether and adopting UTC everywhere. Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I appreciate your pun. It is indeed about time.
- adrianN 8y agoI'd prefer Swatch Internet Time.
- sametmax 8y agoTime zone are very useful for news, travelling, business, etc. Because if you know it's 3pm somewhere or 3am, you can make assumptions. If you know it's 3am everywhere, what does that mean that your plane land at 8 am in this countey or that the strike will start at 10 on that one ?
- lmm 8y agoHow often do you travel to another country compared to how often you phone someone in another country? Local timezones do indeed make a lot of sense for travelling in person, but global time is much better for scheduling conference calls etc., and these days that's the more common case.
- beojan 8y agoIt's terrible for scheduling conference calls. Instead of just converting timezones, you have to remember what a reasonable time of day is in each locality. Or do you just expect Australia to adopt a nocturnal working pattern so they can use UTC?
- lmm 8y agoTragically, our legal system and business culture are so hidebound that the easiest way to make it acceptable for people to come into work earlier, shops to opening earlier and so on is to change what time shows on the clocks.
- adrianmonk 8y agoI agree, but I think companies could make it more palatable if they instead describe it as coming in to work one hour later in the winter. That way, rather than sounding like they expect something extra in the summer, it sounds like they are making a helpful accommodation in the winter. (Also, it's probably not even necessary for those with desk jobs. Arguably it's worse because you are less able to experience at least a little daylight after work.)
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- icc97 8y agoThis would also be a benefit if only half the companies did this, then we'd stagger rush hour a bit more. Actually it would be more of a benefit if it were staggered in the winter since lots are on holiday in the summer. So I propose scrapping summer time and bringing in winter time. That'll confuse the cows.
- markus_schmaus 8y agoHere in Germany, the local cement factory offers this on top of daylight saving time