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> Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to. Uh, yes, that's the point - and many businesses and schools will stick to a consistent
by emtel 5y ago
> Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to.
Uh, yes, that's the point - and many businesses and schools will stick to a consistent nominal time (like 8am) which will now be one hour earlier in real terms.
- beambot 5y ago> [...] which will now be one hour earlier in real terms. "Relative" terms -- i.e. relative to sunrise. Eliminating daylight savings means that all times are now "real" terms.
- emtel 5y agoEliminating DST would mean that. But this bill makes DST permanent, which means that nominal noon will forever be "real" 1pm, which means sunrise will always be one hour later than it otherwise would be.
- CydeWeys 5y agoIt's all arbitrary anyway. There's no natural law of the world that something called an "hour" exists and that a day is split up into 24 of them, or that the hour called "12" is the one that necessarily corresponds to solar noon (or midnight).
- thehappypm 5y agoFor the four months a year that Standard Time currently operates, sure.
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