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Except there are some things in life that are tied to specific times and that you cannot influence. For instance, buses run less frequently in the early morning

by kleiba 7y ago

Except there are some things in life that are tied to specific times and that you cannot influence. For instance, buses run less frequently in the early morning where I live, so if I want to go to work earlier, my commute would be much longer. That's just one example but of course there are quite a few other things, too.

Spivak 7y ago
Obviously when “totally not DST” happens the schedules for everything would shift by an hour to accommodate people.
- ghaff 7y ago
  Or more likely the summer-winter scheduled shift in a largely uncoordinated way over course of a month or two.
- kleiba 7y ago
  Not obvious at all.
yiyus 7y ago
Imagine a world in which everybody does everything earlier during the summer, including buses, and we were discussing the convenience of having DST: "but if we move forward the time, the buses will start running before people go to work and they will be much less frequent when I have to leave!". We need a convenience to which everyone agrees about how to deal with the different sunrise and sunset times. The question is which system is more convenient. But you cannot evaluate one of them under the assumption that everything will work following the other one.