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> It's equally easy to regulate that everybody change their schedules at the same time as you regulate the clock. This is absolutely not true. To answer the qu
by henrikschroder 8y ago
> It's equally easy to regulate that everybody change their schedules at the same time as you regulate the clock.
This is absolutely not true. To answer the question "What time is it in my country?", everyone turns to a single national source of time. Changing that central source for time is absolutely trivial.
Changing signs on every door on every business, changing timetables of every train and every bus line, changing opening hours of every school, and changing people's conventions - that is absolutely not trivial.
- carlmr 8y agoEspecially because business times and social event times are very rigid, even if it's just in people's heads. I'm assuming everyone here who says you should just change your own time doesn't have friends.
- Sean1708 8y agoWhy would those things have to change? We don't change them when the clocks go back (or forwards), so why would they need to change if we make one of those times permanent? Or have I just got completely the wrong idea here?
- stubborn_d0nkey 8y agoI think you missed some context. They're talking about the differences between sticking with summer time vs sticking with winter time but moving things by an hour (so a 9-5 job would be 8-4). In both cases things would happen at the same solar time. Basically the convo was: A: People want to change their clocks to summer time instead of changing their personal schedule B: They don't want to change their personal time but rather society's time A: They could just change society's schedule, it's just as easy. C: Nah, you'd have to change a lot of things, signs, timetables, etc...
- Sean1708 8y agoAh yeah that makes more sense, thanks. I thought they were just arguing that we should stick with winter time, without moving things by an hour.
- henrikschroder 8y agoGrandparent poster was arguing that it's just as easy to change society's conventions like opening hours and business hours everywhere, as it is to change the time. I'm saying that that is absolutely not the case, and that grandparent is delusional.