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Perhaps he also has to work until 6pm and cannot choose to start one hour earlier. Perhaps he wants to do things outside just before going out for dinner; in so
by bonzini 7y ago
Perhaps he also has to work until 6pm and cannot choose to start one hour earlier. Perhaps he wants to do things outside just before going out for dinner; in some places restaurants do not open before 7:30pm. And so on.
Daylight savings time is only useful in a reduced range of latitudes, I grant that. But where it makes sense, it is way worth one hour of sleep once a year.
- coldtea 7y ago>Perhaps he also has to work until 6pm and cannot choose to start one hour earlier. Perhaps he wants to do things outside just before going out for dinner; in some places restaurants do not open before 7:30pm. And so on. If enough people in a country want to do things "when the sun is at a certain point" and that point coincides with a working hour, they can move the 9-5 to 8-4 or whatever. Coordination does not have to correspond to renaming the hours...
- big_chungus 7y agoYou can't just move the time at which society operates. The dependency chain of one thing needing to open with another and so on is too complex for a single entity to control.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoThat's exactly what you do by moving the time. He is suggesting we stop foing it the stupid way, and move the workhours themselves. The current system is like dragging the carpet to move a chair sitting on top. Leave the carpet alone and move the fucking chair directly.
- bonzini 7y agoWouldn't that cause exactly the same disruption to sleep? If schools and everything else suddenly starts at 7 in March after having started at 8 for 5-6 months. And who would enforce it? What if schools move and working hours don't? I'm starting to think that 30 minute off time zone offsets are the way to go.
- gpvos 7y agoThe cost is more than one hour of sleep once a year; for many people it's up to three weeks of arriving drowsy and with a headache at work.