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It seems odd to me that instead of changing business and school hours appropriately, we shift our whole concept of time. An hour disappears from one place and a

It seems odd to me that instead of changing business and school hours appropriately, we shift our whole concept of time. An hour disappears from one place and appears somewhere else. I understand the arguments for DST, but it seems like this extremist thing when simpler options exist.

taeric 7y ago
This argument is weaker than you think. You are asking every business to coordinate when they shift their working hours. Across industries, even. That is exactly what we have right now. With almost certainly less legal writing to coordinate. Definitely let for people to remember. "Is this the week that stores open later? All stores?"
- calibas 7y ago
  Where I live we have DST and stores change their hours during winter, the worst of both worlds! And yes, it would effectively be exactly what we have right now, though I'm not sure that weakens my argument. I just think it's goofy to move an hour around every year. Everybody's clocks change so business don't have to change their hours? Certainly shows where the power lies in our society...
  - taeric 7y ago
    That does sound silly. Why do they change hours? Does it happen at the same time as the clock change? Honestly, we never even know about leap seconds. And we add a full day every four years. Both are arguably similar. If is was just more frequent smaller changes, I'd wager we wouldn't care.
    - calibas 7y ago
      Everything slows down here during winter and many business have reduced hours. They switch hours at different times, I assume they choose the dates because of the snow. And our measurements of time are already imprecise, no need to make it even more complicated by adding DST.
- ClumsyPilot 7y ago
  On the contrary, I believe coordinating country wide shift in business hours Is far easier than a clock shift. I live in czech republic, and today i have come across 7 (!) clocks showing incorrect time. By the time they are corrected, it will be time to switch again.

taeric 7y ago

This argument is weaker than you think. You are asking every business to coordinate when they shift their working hours. Across industries, even. That is exactly what we have right now. With almost certainly less legal writing to coordinate. Definitely let for people to remember. "Is this the week that stores open later? All stores?"

calibas 7y ago
Where I live we have DST and stores change their hours during winter, the worst of both worlds! And yes, it would effectively be exactly what we have right now, though I'm not sure that weakens my argument. I just think it's goofy to move an hour around every year. Everybody's clocks change so business don't have to change their hours? Certainly shows where the power lies in our society...
- taeric 7y ago
  That does sound silly. Why do they change hours? Does it happen at the same time as the clock change? Honestly, we never even know about leap seconds. And we add a full day every four years. Both are arguably similar. If is was just more frequent smaller changes, I'd wager we wouldn't care.
  - calibas 7y ago
    Everything slows down here during winter and many business have reduced hours. They switch hours at different times, I assume they choose the dates because of the snow. And our measurements of time are already imprecise, no need to make it even more complicated by adding DST.
ClumsyPilot 7y ago
On the contrary, I believe coordinating country wide shift in business hours Is far easier than a clock shift. I live in czech republic, and today i have come across 7 (!) clocks showing incorrect time. By the time they are corrected, it will be time to switch again.