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> When's the last time you used a sundial to figure out the time down to a quarter hour or didn't have a device with you that gave you the current time? I live

by ginko 5y ago

> When's the last time you used a sundial to figure out the time down to a quarter hour or didn't have a device with you that gave you the current time? I live in Scandinavia some 500km South of the Arctic circle. Let me tell you that it's very obvious that the sun is one hour off at "midnight" in Summer. If we kept DST in Winter it would be even more noticeable. It would also mean that there'd be some 3 months per year where I need to go to and leave from work in complete darkness. At least right now I get to wake up to some sunlight in December. Daytime is fundamentally an astronomic concept. Proponents of permanent DST could at least be intellectually honest and admit they want everyone to get up an hour earlier rather than force everyone to pretend that 11am is actually 12pm. > Yes, the days get a bit shorter, but you're still talking about a 6:45pm sunset in Texas That's cute. I just walked back home from work and the sun was already setting here at 5:30. And it's still Autumn.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago
That's cool, but this article is written by an American to an American audience with an American sensibility regarding daylight and time in general. What works best for us may not be what works best for you, and people in your country are free to set your time however you like.
- ginko 5y ago
  I disagree. The US has states quite a lot further North and their decisions are also likely to affect Canadian timezone decisions. Furthermore the same discussion is taking place in the EU with countries in Central Europe on the Easternmost part of CET (in particular Germany) pushing for permanent DST, so take my opinion not as a Northern-European one but as a Northern one. To me it looks like it's mainly the Southernmost states and countries that are pushing for this. Which is especially strange since actual tropical countries don't seem to have issues with standard time.

by ginko 5y ago

MisterBastahrd 5y ago

That's cool, but this article is written by an American to an American audience with an American sensibility regarding daylight and time in general. What works best for us may not be what works best for you, and people in your country are free to set your time however you like.

ginko 5y ago
I disagree. The US has states quite a lot further North and their decisions are also likely to affect Canadian timezone decisions. Furthermore the same discussion is taking place in the EU with countries in Central Europe on the Easternmost part of CET (in particular Germany) pushing for permanent DST, so take my opinion not as a Northern-European one but as a Northern one. To me it looks like it's mainly the Southernmost states and countries that are pushing for this. Which is especially strange since actual tropical countries don't seem to have issues with standard time.