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Because it's the traditional marker for midday. You said yourself that different people want light at different times of day, so trying to accommodate people's
by Talanes 6y ago
Because it's the traditional marker for midday. You said yourself that different people want light at different times of day, so trying to accommodate people's needs like that will always fail someone. Why not skew as close to traditional time as feasible, if all we need to do is agree on one standard?
- echelon 6y agoMore people want it later. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/poll-74-percent-of-americans-want-to-end-daylight-saving-time-but-keep-later-sunsets-300549400.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/poll-74-percent-of-...
- pseudalopex 6y agoYou seem to assume people's preferences are monotonic and average to solar time. Most people want more light in the evening. And most people say light before or after work is better than neither.
- Talanes 6y agoMy assumption is that individual people's preferences are an insignificantly small data point compared to thousands of years of solar-based time schemes that our ancestors seemed to get by just fine with.
- tlb 6y agoI think you can ignore data from before electric lighting.
- pseudalopex 6y agoMost of our ancestors didn't work fixed hours in artificial light.