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I'm kind of amused at calling Seattle a "northern latitude". I live quite a bit north of that and I can tell you that as you go into actual northern latitudes i

I'm kind of amused at calling Seattle a "northern latitude". I live quite a bit north of that and I can tell you that as you go into actual northern latitudes if you wanted to have any of these useful effects you'd have to be changing the time a lot more often than just twice a year. The bonuses of DST up here last maybe a few weeks before it really doesn't matter anymore, and likewise for the standard time shift, except probably even shorter time being useful. Yet we still have to do it, even though it causes demonstrable harm to shift clocks twice a year.

Ekaros 5y ago
From Finland I see that Seattle is around Switzerland. Which I consider central Europe or even being very much in south. Noticed that standard time was actually useful this time of year. Where there was no light before it, but now there is at least some for while. And I see it much more important for morning than evening.
- stormbrew 5y ago
  To me it just means I get sad twice when I stop seeing the sun in the morning again. I've never found it worth it. I'm somewhere between finland and seattle, latitude-wise. A quirk of the structure of European vs. North American landmass is that northern europe is a lot more 'habitable' than northern America, so I am literally in the farthest north >1m person city in the americas and it feels about the same as, say, Stockholm except without direct ocean warmth.