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EU and US: They have both been talking about it in spurts, and they do wake up every ~6 months when the time changes, but no serious action anywhere.
by kshacker 6y ago
EU and US: They have both been talking about it in spurts, and they do wake up every ~6 months when the time changes, but no serious action anywhere.
- deathanatos 6y agoThe US has been talking about making DST permanent, which is very different from cancelling it.
- shmerl 6y agoAs long as the switch itself is dropped. Which one to drop is probably moot and benefits could depend on the region. It's easier to adjust local schedule than to switch the clock back and forth.
- chrishas35 6y agoSplit the difference and let’s move on.
- Thorrez 6y agoI would prefer to not live in a timezone with a half hour offset from UTC (which do exist, in fact 15 minute offsets exist).
- strbean 6y agoMy favorite timezone absurdity is timezones with an offset > 12 hours.
- Zacru 6y agoI often need to covert timestamps to and from UTC. I sure hope I don't end up in a -6:30 timezone.
- riffic 6y agothe clock is effectively a human construct. It would make little difference one way or another if there was no twice-a-year time change. You can not change the number of hours a point on the earth receives daylight over a 24 hour period, and you can not change the fact that axial tilt means the amount of time you do receive daylight changes over the course of the year.
- strbean 6y agoCan we short-circuit all this BS and just eliminate timezones completely? It'll take a week to get used to thinking in UTC, and then we can forget the nightmare of timezones forever.
- K2L8M11N2 6y agohttps://qntm.org/abolish https://qntm.org/abolish
- iggldiggl 6y agoUnless you happen to be part of the privileged part of the world living nearish the meridian, good luck to having the calendar date changing in the middle of your waking hours and all the confusion that that would entail. For the unlucky rest of the world it also means that things like public holidays and suchlike either weirdly start and end in the middle of the (solar) day, or alternatively you'd have to specify that all holidays etc. actually start and end not at midnight (UTC), but whatever time actually corresponds to some time in the middle of night, which basically means reintroducing time zones through the back door. Also the link K2L8M11N2 posted.
- kshacker 6y agoThe 'difference' is action vs inaction. I do not know what the consensus is, but we see this drama every 6 months. If they just said 'we are not going to do it', it would be one thing, but we have been having this charade for a while now. I know some charade is required to build consensus, but based on my reading of the news, there is just too much chatter, and we all get riled up every time we change clocks.