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And what is gained by doing it this way versus shifting the hour hand? Clocks update themselves. Store hour signs, bus tables, stickers in windows, business ca
by function_seven 8y ago
And what is gained by doing it this way versus shifting the hour hand?
Clocks update themselves. Store hour signs, bus tables, stickers in windows, business cards, Outlook calendars, etc. They do not.
I don't like changing clocks twice a year; sticking with one time-zone offset is better. But having the entire population shift their working, banking, classroom, and service hours ad hoc is strictly worse than a universal hour shift. Instead of "Open M-F, 9a-5p", you suggest that "Open M-F, 9a-5p, Winter, 10a-6p Summer" is more elegant? Because that's what all vinyl stickers on glass doors would look like.
And it's still centralized and regulated, just like DST is now. So what have we gained?
- Natanael_L 8y agoSeasonal schedules is already a thing in many places. It's not that hard.
- function_seven 8y agoNo. But neither is changing the clock. So what’s the benefit of having enforced seasonal schedule changes vs the DST change?
- Natanael_L 8y agoForcing it would only be temporary to make the transition smoother, getting people used to updating schedules. After the first two years or so, it would hopefully run on its own, people would run on the schedules that makes sense locally.
- anyfoo 8y agoAsking again: What’s the benefit of having enforced seasonal schedule changes vs. the DST change?
- Natanael_L 8y agoHaving a rational clock There's more examples like this, famously electric negative and positive poles that would have been reversed compared to the current standard if the scientists would have known how things work. Many current standards have unintuitive quirks that only live on because they're old and entrenched, and that wouldn't have existed if the standards were set today instead. So let's stop with the dumb quirks before it's entrenched.
- madcaptenor 8y agoAlso you'd have to agree on how to define "winter" and "summer", just like we now have rules that guarantee that all daylight savings time changes will be on the same date across all US states or EU countries.