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I am probably part of the minority, but I actually quite like DST: you get to sit outside longer on warm summer nights, and winter days are balanced too. Since
by kleiba 13y ago
I am probably part of the minority, but I actually quite like DST: you get to sit outside longer on warm summer nights, and winter days are balanced too. Since that is about the only thing where I feel that DST effects me, I'm really ok with it.
- humbledrone 13y agoI don't see what the numbers displayed on a clockface have to do with this. Can't you sit outside whenever you like, regardless of the hour number?
- tomflack 13y agoNo, because working schedules are based on the clock face.
- mike_esspe 13y agoCan you ask your employer to shift the schedule?
- venomsnake 13y agoAlso ask your friends' employers, the restaurants, the fast food joints, the public parks ...
- Lerc 13y agoIf only there were some mechanism we could use to get everyone to change their schedules at the same time.
- chrismonsanto 13y agoPerhaps that mechanism could work by waking up at a different time, instead of changing the time, which causes trouble for those who do not change with you.
- 3pt14159 13y agoI'm Canadian and for me DST is pure hell. Imagine not being able to see the sun either in the morning while you jog before work, or in the evening while you walk home. That is my December, and that is in Toronto, it is even worse in Ottawa. I have one Turkish grandparent and the rest north-western european so it's not even that bad for me compared with say a Jamaican, but combined with the interruption to my internal clock (which is normally very accurate) it really pisses me off.
- mjn 13y agoDecember is during the regular, non-DST period, though. DST is March-October. So if you don't like the time of sunrise/sunset in December, it can't be DST's fault! One solution could be to standardize in the other direction: instead of abolishing DST, go to year-round DST, i.e. year-round offset of ~1hr between solar time and clock time.
- grecy 13y agoOh, come on. You choose to live so far from the Equator, short days are a consequence of that. Come on up here to the Yukon if you want to see what it's all about.
- eru 13y agoWhy couldn't you just get up earlier (or later) on your own?
- RogerL 13y agoHere, here. I rejoiced when they pushed the switching times to nov/march. For several years I refused to change my clocks from DST, and just kept living on that time. It was easy enough to do that at work at the time. Well, here comes 4 months of living in the dark. How depressing.