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this feeling made me realise how clocks and time influence our daily lives, and not care so much for such accurate timekeeping. i think most people would never
by vectorEQ 8y ago
this feeling made me realise how clocks and time influence our daily lives, and not care so much for such accurate timekeeping. i think most people would never need to be confronted with such things. it should be transparent to the user so to say... if some business or government processes require it, which i doubt unless they were constructed in a specific way to fit it, they can use their own time juggling devices for that. :s
people are so obsessed about time, all the time! it just cause them unneccesry stress. maybe if these kind of things are changed, people will start to look in other areas how time is affecting them and also make adjustments there to live more free and relaxed.
now i know some things are stuck with specific times, public transport, work times etc., but even there you can make your life so that you don't need to worry about it or have it influence you. i usually get up far before i need to leave for work, so i dont need to worry about catching the train or not, i can just get the next one, or the one after that. subsequently i also don't ever need to worry about that start time of work, because that's tied to the same mechanism. it saves tons of stress in the morning, which makes all days feel much much more relaxed even though i'm doing the same things and not missing time sensitive appointments (not to cause others stress because of their obsession of time!).
time is a funny thing, and one needs to be careful how to use it. it's arguably just a construct of our imagination, so don't let it be a nightmare ;D
- cheschire 8y agoI stopped wearing a watch several years ago, and I never really adopted carrying a cell phone with me everywhere, so I started relying on clocks being where ever I would end up needing them. When there wasn't a clock hanging, I would typically find a person to ask, or a computer screen to glance at. It's amazing how many places would benefit from hanging a simple clock. Airports, for example...
- Angostura 8y agoIts amazing how useful a watch is.
- kaybe 8y agoI am really confused about the lack of clocks in airports. Train stations usually have plenty, but airports usually close to none. Why?!
- 24gttghh 8y agoTheory: There are arrival/departure time screens everywhere and those have the current time on them?
- kaybe 8y agoYou'd think, but the really big old ones don't actually have the current time, and the screens in the departure area are usually small and less frequent than I'd like.
- 24gttghh 8y agoSecond theory: Planes are late constantly and the airport/airlines don't want to keep reminding people how late the flight is; apart from the obvious intercom announcements, that is.
- superflyguy 8y agoDon't you mean "it's amazing how many times I'd be better off wearing a watch/carry a cell phone"?
- ken 8y agoI think this is a good argument against DST. I realized a few years ago that I don't need to wear a watch because I'm never in any place that doesn't have a clock. Unfortunately, a lot of clock don't get changed promptly for DST. Here in Seattle, it seems the transit clocks are always changed a month or two (!) after each DST change. Some public clocks never get changed. There's a significant fraction of the year where I simply can't trust any clock I see.