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Why can't the time someone wakes up or works change with the season, but using the same timezone? What is the point to call it 7a when it's actually 6a?
by 0xCMP 5y ago
Why can't the time someone wakes up or works change with the season, but using the same timezone? What is the point to call it 7a when it's actually 6a?
- vikingerik 5y agoIt's the advantage of centralization. Instead of every entity changing their operational hours, they peg it to a common standard, and simply change the standard. It's a layer of indirection. By doing it this way, we keep things in synch, like business hours matching school hours matching transit timetables and so on. If every one of them changed their hours separately, we'd have a much greater mess than the less-bad current approach to daylight time. Whether we want the functionality at all (to adjust human activities based on sunlight hours) is a separate question. Given that we do, DST is a useful abstraction compared to going without it.