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Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the
by jstanley 8y ago
Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.
- function_seven 8y agoYours might not, but mine does. Evenings for me are from ~5pm to bedtime. Unfortunately they're determined by the clock, not the sun.
- eloisant 8y agoThe point is saying summer time is better than winter time regardless you where you live is meaningless. Depending where you live, the offset with the sun is different. In France for example I'd rather we stick with winter time all year round, because I don't care if it's dark at 6pm on winter but doing your morning commute during the night is highly depressing.
- improbable22 8y agoOne point about abandoning DST is that it does re-open these questions. It seems a bit crazy that Madrid and Warsaw are on the same time zone, and perhaps they will get around to fixing this while they're fiddling.
- salvar 8y ago> The point is saying summer time is better than winter time regardless you where you live is meaningless True, but who said this? The grandparent only said that they were happy about the decision in their location. No one stated that summer time is better than winter time regardless of where you live.
- ddebernardy 8y agoFYI, I found that sunlight appearing at ~4am and disappearing long before dinner, like it does during the winter in places like the riviera Maya or Hungary, is even less fun. I'd pick a late sunrise like in Western France or Spain over an early sunset in a heartbeat.
- neonate 8y agoYou're talking about the diurnal cycle, but what we call evenings are defined by social convention and certainly do get darker after the November time shift.
- danharaj 8y agoThe hours I spend at work, on the other hand...
- InclinedPlane 8y agoThe easiest way to shift the schedule of everyone in an area is just to shift the time.
- jstanley 8y agoBut you don't need to shift everyone else's schedule, only your own. The easiest way to shift your own schedule is just to shift it.
- watwut 8y agoYeah, I will just shift my kids classes in school and clubs unilaterally an hour down. Or opening hours in shop I want to go to. And move meeting and buss needed to go to places and what not. And shift or service worker will just come an hour later, no big deal.
- alex__c 8y agoIf shops and schools are sane, they will adjust the schedule according to daylight. No point keeping a shop open at 7am if there's no shoppers, because they're all sound asleep.
- salvar 8y agoWorks great unless you need to live in a society with other people and other schedules.
- yen223 8y agoI propose we solve the obesity crisis by shifting all weights by 10kg down.
- iav 8y agoQuite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people
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- thaumasiotes 8y agoTangent: what's the purpose of closing the financial markets overnight? Why not just have them open all the time?
- andai 8y agoIt sure makes for more dramatic price graphs.
- conanbatt 8y agoSurely thats a regulation thing, not an actual desire by the market.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThat just shifts the question around. Why, as king, would you want to make sure that there's a period every day when no one is supposed to trade financial instruments?
- conanbatt 8y agoBecause the king doesn't want to take the responsiblity of overlooking the transactions everyday: just when he feels like it.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoHow does the one relate to the other?
- salvar 8y agoThe timezone does dictate what part of the day we generally call "evening" though.