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.
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?
Time zones weren’t established to adjust for north/south variances, they’re for east/west. And we don’t adjust the clocks to make sunrise and sunset fall on consistent time of day throughout the year. They’re so that we can reliably account for what the local time is somewhere other than where we are (in the USA they were created for cross-continental railroads to publish train schedules). We already have GMT/UTC and every other time zone is defined relative to that, so why don’t you just personally use that in all your own devices and communications already? Nothing but you can prevent you from doing so.
Your last comment said it does adjust for the sun, now this one says it doesn’t.
Your argument is “But I don’t like change, so I don’t want to change to having no changes”
Why don’t I just use a system the rest of U.S. doesn’t use? Because when I turn on the TV, pick up a paper, or sit down at computer, it will always be different.
What kind of thought process is that. Instead we’ll drive south-east and wind up with the time going backwards, north-west and the time going forward and everyone will wonder what braindead fool couldn’t draw a vertical line. And then remember, it’s because a lot of people thought it was a terrible idea from the start, so many states/countries bent those lines.
Id call it a sunk cost.
No, my argument is that time zones are a formalization of what we observe in physical reality: that different parts of the planet are experience a different phase of the Earth’s rotation through direct sunlight in at any given moment. They can’t ever be perfect, so we all have to agree to a best approximation, and some communities decide for themselves that they don’t want to have a a dividing line through the middle of their city, and that’s fine because the whole system is meant for co-ordinating over long distances.
