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It would be much easier to adopt daylight/standard time permanently than to battle all the inertial forces which maintain our cultural structures around times o

It would be much easier to adopt daylight/standard time permanently than to battle all the inertial forces which maintain our cultural structures around times of the day (5pm is when work ends, 12 is when you eat lunch, ...)

pmontra 6y ago
Adding to this social inertia concept, there are countries where work ends at 6pm, lunch is at 1pm or later and dinner at 8pm or later. I live in one of them. If somebody occasionally have dinner at 7pm s/he's laughed at. If it's a regular thing, well, that's so weird. I don't expect that those habits passed on by generations can be changed in one day.
- masklinn 6y ago
  There's also the opposite tack where some countries culturally have dinner around 6PM.
- tonfa 6y ago
  At least in western Europe, before WW2 many countries were not on CET/CEST, so that's fairly recent.
- thatcodingdude 6y ago
  I think these kind of habits will disappear with boomers. I don't know which country you live in but I'm sure young people wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you ate dinner before 8PM. The general consensus here among young people is that the world is burning so go ahead and eat cereal in your pajamas at 3PM it doesn't really matter.
  - asdff 6y ago
    young people work 9-5 too you know. everything else follows that. not to mention when these young people eventually have kids and their lives revolve around school hours.
- balfirevic 6y ago
  I don't know if you meant it hyperbolically, but who the hell laughs at other people's meal schedule?
  - masklinn 6y ago
    > I don't know if you meant it hyperbolically, but who the hell laughs at other people's meal schedule? Having a shared meal schedule across society means it's relatively easy to plan social or otherwise shared events. You certainly don't have to care, but given how large a part of people's lives groups and group activities are, it's hardly surprising such a deviation would lead to jesting at least.

pmontra 6y ago

Adding to this social inertia concept, there are countries where work ends at 6pm, lunch is at 1pm or later and dinner at 8pm or later. I live in one of them. If somebody occasionally have dinner at 7pm s/he's laughed at. If it's a regular thing, well, that's so weird. I don't expect that those habits passed on by generations can be changed in one day.

masklinn 6y ago
There's also the opposite tack where some countries culturally have dinner around 6PM.
tonfa 6y ago
At least in western Europe, before WW2 many countries were not on CET/CEST, so that's fairly recent.
thatcodingdude 6y ago
I think these kind of habits will disappear with boomers. I don't know which country you live in but I'm sure young people wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you ate dinner before 8PM. The general consensus here among young people is that the world is burning so go ahead and eat cereal in your pajamas at 3PM it doesn't really matter.
- asdff 6y ago
  young people work 9-5 too you know. everything else follows that. not to mention when these young people eventually have kids and their lives revolve around school hours.
balfirevic 6y ago
I don't know if you meant it hyperbolically, but who the hell laughs at other people's meal schedule?
- masklinn 6y ago
  > I don't know if you meant it hyperbolically, but who the hell laughs at other people's meal schedule? Having a shared meal schedule across society means it's relatively easy to plan social or otherwise shared events. You certainly don't have to care, but given how large a part of people's lives groups and group activities are, it's hardly surprising such a deviation would lead to jesting at least.