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I know this is hardly a radical take, but I don't care what time it is. I can adjust my schedule appropriately. What I hate is changing the time. It makes us

I know this is hardly a radical take, but I don't care what time it is. I can adjust my schedule appropriately. What I hate is changing the time. It makes us all sicker, causes accidents, and workers in certain professions have to work weird hours to keep up with the changes. It's such a drag on the economy and only seems to serve a small fragment of society.

stadium 5y ago
Not radical at all, I'll happily take either too.
tastyfreeze 5y ago
Which fragment of society are you thinking time changing benefits? The common one I hear is farmers. Which is complete BS. Farmers work by the sun because the plants and animals they care for don't use clocks. https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time-farming/ https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time...
- falcolas 5y ago
  Farmers used to care, when they made broad use of their spawn to assist with harvests and chores. If the spawn gets out of school an hour earlier, that's an hour more labor they can do before the sun sets.
  - caleb-allen 5y ago
    Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.
    - bena 5y ago
      It's also kind of bullshit. Children can do some farm work, but the majority of farm work is going to be done by adults and teenagers. Farmers have been mostly against DST since the beginning. It was golfers, bug catchers, and 7-11 that wanted it. And permanent DST has failed when it was tried here in the 70s, in the UK a few years before that, and in Russia as recent as the 2010s. Why do we want to do it again?
- notatoad 5y ago
  the idea that DST happens for the farmers has always been pretty funny to me, because the one province in canada that doesn't observe DST is the province that has nothing but farmland.
tantalor 5y ago
> drag on the economy Do we know if this is true? Does the proposal have an estimate of the financial impact? What are we talking about here, $10M? $100B? I have no sense for it.
- chapium 5y ago
  Absolutely. Tons of labor goes into patching systems for DST and supporting and testing switchover. My experience is in the healthcare sector.
tromp 5y ago
It also makes the timezone differences vary as different zones switch on different dates. Hopefully the whole world will come to their senses and we get rid of the changes globally so that timezone differences will be fixed.
soheil 5y ago
It's my damn oven's time that I neglect to correct for about 3 months every single time.

stadium 5y ago

Not radical at all, I'll happily take either too.

tastyfreeze 5y ago

Which fragment of society are you thinking time changing benefits? The common one I hear is farmers. Which is complete BS. Farmers work by the sun because the plants and animals they care for don't use clocks. https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time-farming/ https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time...

falcolas 5y ago
Farmers used to care, when they made broad use of their spawn to assist with harvests and chores. If the spawn gets out of school an hour earlier, that's an hour more labor they can do before the sun sets.
- caleb-allen 5y ago
  Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.
  - bena 5y ago
    It's also kind of bullshit. Children can do some farm work, but the majority of farm work is going to be done by adults and teenagers. Farmers have been mostly against DST since the beginning. It was golfers, bug catchers, and 7-11 that wanted it. And permanent DST has failed when it was tried here in the 70s, in the UK a few years before that, and in Russia as recent as the 2010s. Why do we want to do it again?
notatoad 5y ago
the idea that DST happens for the farmers has always been pretty funny to me, because the one province in canada that doesn't observe DST is the province that has nothing but farmland.

tantalor 5y ago

> drag on the economy Do we know if this is true? Does the proposal have an estimate of the financial impact? What are we talking about here, $10M? $100B? I have no sense for it.

chapium 5y ago
Absolutely. Tons of labor goes into patching systems for DST and supporting and testing switchover. My experience is in the healthcare sector.

tromp 5y ago

It also makes the timezone differences vary as different zones switch on different dates. Hopefully the whole world will come to their senses and we get rid of the changes globally so that timezone differences will be fixed.

soheil 5y ago

It's my damn oven's time that I neglect to correct for about 3 months every single time.