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Then just adjust the time you do it instead of forcing everybody to deal with DST.

by kiba 7y ago

tzs 7y ago
A lot of people in places far enough away from the equator to have significant changes in sunlight hours want the increased daylight hours in summer to happen after work rather than before work, and/or do not want them to happen while they are still asleep or trying to sleep in the morning. Yes, we could leave the clocks alone, and change the clock times at which we do things. We could have businesses open at, say, 9 AM in the winter and 8 AM in the summer. We could have schools start an hour earlier in the summer. People tend to want to arrange their sleep schedule so that they pretty much just prepare for work and/or school after waking and then leave, so that their non-work time is all after work. That way they get their non-work time in one block, instead of split into two smaller blocks with work in between. That means we'd be changing our wake up times by an hour in the summer to accommodated business/school opening hours. (Which means those who rely on alarm clocks to wake on time would be changing their alarm time...so much for escaping fiddling with clocks!). Much of what we do is tied to our sleep or work schedules, such as when we get hungry and when we need transit. So...we end up with pretty much everything that operates on a regular schedule having a separate winter and summer schedule. Every place we print schedules has to have two schedules that get swapped between summer and winter. Every place that has an alarm or an alert tied to work or sleep needs to have alarm times swapped between summer and winter. Dealing with all that will involve making more changes twice a year--some to things that can be a hassle to change like signage. Or we can just change the clocks--which are designed to be easy to change, and nowadays most of them can even do it automatically.
- ClumsyPilot 7y ago
  I live in a country with DST, I currently have 3 devices in my house showing incorrect time. On my way to th city centre I came across 2 public clocks, one at a bus stop, one at a metro stop showing incorrect time. I walk into the KFC and time on the checkout counter is wrong. Which part of this mess is "designed to be easy to change"??
- andrey_utkin 7y ago
  Excellent reasons to have, every year, 1) two hours of time which use the same time notation (think about trains and flights arriving at those times), and 2) one hour which doesn't exist, leading to e.g. time interval between 1am and 3am being 1 hour.

Then just adjust the time you do it instead of forcing everybody to deal with DST.

by kiba 7y ago

Then just adjust the time you do it instead of forcing everybody to deal with DST.

tzs 7y ago

A lot of people in places far enough away from the equator to have significant changes in sunlight hours want the increased daylight hours in summer to happen after work rather than before work, and/or do not want them to happen while they are still asleep or trying to sleep in the morning. Yes, we could leave the clocks alone, and change the clock times at which we do things. We could have businesses open at, say, 9 AM in the winter and 8 AM in the summer. We could have schools start an hour earlier in the summer. People tend to want to arrange their sleep schedule so that they pretty much just prepare for work and/or school after waking and then leave, so that their non-work time is all after work. That way they get their non-work time in one block, instead of split into two smaller blocks with work in between. That means we'd be changing our wake up times by an hour in the summer to accommodated business/school opening hours. (Which means those who rely on alarm clocks to wake on time would be changing their alarm time...so much for escaping fiddling with clocks!). Much of what we do is tied to our sleep or work schedules, such as when we get hungry and when we need transit. So...we end up with pretty much everything that operates on a regular schedule having a separate winter and summer schedule. Every place we print schedules has to have two schedules that get swapped between summer and winter. Every place that has an alarm or an alert tied to work or sleep needs to have alarm times swapped between summer and winter. Dealing with all that will involve making more changes twice a year--some to things that can be a hassle to change like signage. Or we can just change the clocks--which are designed to be easy to change, and nowadays most of them can even do it automatically.

ClumsyPilot 7y ago
I live in a country with DST, I currently have 3 devices in my house showing incorrect time. On my way to th city centre I came across 2 public clocks, one at a bus stop, one at a metro stop showing incorrect time. I walk into the KFC and time on the checkout counter is wrong. Which part of this mess is "designed to be easy to change"??
andrey_utkin 7y ago
Excellent reasons to have, every year, 1) two hours of time which use the same time notation (think about trains and flights arriving at those times), and 2) one hour which doesn't exist, leading to e.g. time interval between 1am and 3am being 1 hour.