President-elect Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that Republicans will work together to ditch Daylight Saving Time, the practice of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year.
Id prefer this to but many are against it. To me a number is a number, if I say it’s 8 o’clock then it should be 8 o’clock. Not 8am eastern, 7am central, 5am Pacific… (yes we always ignore mountain time).
If I drive 15 mins east the clocks shouldn’t jump. States like Florida have 2 time zones within them.
What time is the meeting at? 12, fucking 12, I don’t care if you are working from Japan today, it’s at 12.
Now for the fun part. It’s 13, not 1 again. What time is mass at? 12. I don’t want to specify it is midnight mass 12, it’s fucking 12, 1 of them.
Then there are no mistakes to be made.
I have to cross the timezone in Florida often for work, and it gets hella confusing when I need to tell Medicaid I saw one client 11-12 in the eastern time zone, and another at 11:15-12:15 in the central time zone, and my EMR system automatically uses my device’s time zone, but I’m completing both billing notes in the time zone I don’t live in
But the time indicates your relative position in the Earth’s rotation. The number 13 in reference to the rotational cycle means the sun in the sky is a particular number of degrees away from your position on the earth and it only that particular value in that one geographic slice of the planet. You can personally choose to use UTC/GMT for yourself if that’s what you want to do, and meeting invites you send and receive will all correct accordingly for the configured time zone.
That holds true outside of the fact that it changes daily due to our axis orbit and our position on earth. If we actually went by it, our clocks would have to change constantly as well. So if we are going to ignore it by not changing the clocks, why wouldn’t we just ignore it all together. We are okay with saying the sun sets at 4:30… Or 7:30… Or maybe it only sets for 2 hours a night if you are north/south enough… So why bother trying to coorelate that?
That’s nice for people with low UTC offsets, but will be incredibly confusing for most of the Earth’s population who are closer to the date line. Imagine it being Tuesday in the morning and Wednesday in the afternoon!
Now, 24h time I’m 100% in favor of. AM/PM can fuck right off.
